atw: Re: Conditional text in Word- does ir exist?
- From: "Lewington, Warren J (WT)" <warren.lewington.ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:09:21 -0400
There are several other ways that might work for you here other than
hidden text methods (which from my memory leave the paragraph in place,
so you end up with holes in the document).
One thing to try is the use of master and sub document systems. This is
complicated to learn, although, when done properly, is a stable system.
Another is using a merge format setup. So you create a large spreadsheet
containing the content or a source content document and pull in the
relevant information chunks into an output document according to your
requirements.
Regards,
Warren
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ana Young
Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 16:51
To: AusTech
Subject: atw: Conditional text in Word- does ir exist?
Hi,
I have been away from the "pure" Word development of documentation and
(possibly) I have been spoiled by having used (extensively) all the
perks of a good application to develop online help (Flare).
I have inherited two, almost identical, Word documents - one for
customers and one for internal staff. I would like to merge them into
one and apply conditional text appropriately, so that I can then have
two different versions using the same source. For maintenance and
reviewing purposes that would make everyone's life much easier.
I have been trying to see if Word has this functionality added in and,
to my surprise, it seems that it does not - I am using Word 2007 (and I
remember using it in FrameMaker a very long time ago).
Apart from buying a plug-in, which I doubt I will be allowed to do, is
there another way to do this? If I have all the "internal" text as
hidden text, will this do the trick? Can the removal of hidden text
(when you print) correctly cater for pagination?
I know that it is late on a Friday and people are attending the
conference, but I was wondering if there is someone out there that has
an answer.
Regards,
Ana
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