Insert File - Formatting

[Rosemary]

Hi,

I'm building a folder which contains about 100 files that
will be used to build a document. Each time the document
is built, the user first opens a template form that has
some opening text. The template form has a macro that
asks the user to select from one of three fonts for the
document. Then, the user selects the individual files
they want to include in the body of the document by using
Insert - File.

Because the document can be in one of three fonts, I
would like to have the files that are inserted into the
template form take on the font that was selected by the
user for the template form. How can I do this?

Thanks,

 

[Rosemary]

I should have mentioned that we use Word 2000.

Thanks,

 

[macropod]

Hi Rosemary,

If your source documents are correctly formatted using styles, rather than
being hard-formatted, and you define the same styles in the target document,
the inserted documents will adopt the style definitions in the target
document. Since you want to change the font, I'd recommend coding your macro
to apply that font to a suitable base style (eg Normal or Body Text).

Another approach would be to do the insertions via LINK or INCLUDETEXT
fields with a \* MERGEFORMAT switch.

Cheers

 

[Rosemary]

Hi,

I have formatted all the source documents using the same
styles as the target document, as you said. The font in
all the source documents and the macro template is
Courier New (only because I had to choose something). I
believe that means the macro I wrote needs to be modified
so it applies the selected font (Courier, TNR, or Arial)
to Normal style (which is my base style). Is this
correct?

Thanks!!

 

[Rosemary]

Hi again,

I modified my macro to apply the selected font to both
Normal and the Body Text styles. That did the trick!
Thank you for your help.

Regards,