Open Multiple Documents Within One Document

John Abrahams

I will describe what I am trying to do in simple terms.

Lets say that I have 10 sub-documents, and 5 main documents. I want to
make it so that I can place multiple sub-documents (which are just
plain word files) into a single main document (which is also a word
file). The point of it is that when I edit a sub-document it changes
within all of hte main documents. One way I think about it is like
hyperlinking a sub-document in a main document with some code that
allows it to be viewed in the word document so even if I change the
sub-document it updates in all of them. If anyone has an idea how to
accomplish this or need more clarification please say. Thank you.

John Abrahams

Ed

Hi John,

Possibly you could use INCLUDETEXT fields?

E.g. in one of your main documents you might have things like

{ INCLUDETEXT "\\\\MyServer\\MyFolder\\MySubDoc1.doc" }

When you select the fields and update them (F9) they should display the
content of the sub-documents.

Note, if you create the fields manually you need to use Ctrl+F9 for the
curly brackets, not the curly bracket keys on the keyboard. Also note the
doubling of the backslashes.

Regards.

Ed

"John Abrahams" wrote:

> I will describe what I am trying to do in simple terms.
>
> Lets say that I have 10 sub-documents, and 5 main documents. I want to
> make it so that I can place multiple sub-documents (which are just
> plain word files) into a single main document (which is also a word
> file). The point of it is that when I edit a sub-document it changes
> within all of hte main documents. One way I think about it is like
> hyperlinking a sub-document in a main document with some code that
> allows it to be viewed in the word document so even if I change the
> sub-document it updates in all of them. If anyone has an idea how to
> accomplish this or need more clarification please say. Thank you.
>
> John Abrahams
>
>

John Abrahams

Thank you Ed! I think that will work fine! I've played around with it
a bit and it seems easy enough. Thank you once again.

Ed

You're welcome :-)

Regards.

Ed

"John Abrahams" wrote:

> Thank you Ed! I think that will work fine! I've played around with it
> a bit and it seems easy enough. Thank you once again.
>
>