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parkin_m - 07 Jun 2007 12:58 GMT

Hi again, I have another problem that I hope you can help with - (I posted
here because my posts arent posting in pagelayout :/ ).

Our company has letter headed paper that we print onto from word. We have
around 100 templates set up that we use (mainly with the same header) - that
I did not create. We are getting new paper in which has a logo in a slightly
different place so I will need to go through and change the new headers one
by one.

How do I make sure that I do not have to do this task again? For example: if
i were writing a webpage in php or making writing in c++ i would not create
the "top" of the page in each file and copy paste it in, I would create
header.php or .cpp and then "include" it inside the file. Is there a way i
can create jsut as header and footer .doc file and include that within
another .doc file or something?

Any comments are welcome

P.s we are running Word 2002 SP2

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Russ - 08 Jun 2007 08:05 GMT

>Is there a way i
> can create jsut as header and footer .doc file and include that within
> another .doc file or something?

In Word you would create a template document to do that. A .dot file.

Word starts off by default with only the Normal.dot attached to every newly
opened blank document.

And depending on where the new template was stored, it would apply to all
new documents or the template would have to be 'attached' to a new document
when it is opened to receive the template's characteristics.

Use this site for all kinds of useful information:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

> Hi again, I have another problem that I hope you can help with - (I posted
> here because my posts arent posting in pagelayout :/ ).
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> P.s we are running Word 2002 SP2

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Stefan Blom - 08 Jun 2007 09:30 GMT

Create an AutoText entry that stores the data you want to be inserted.
In the relevant documents and templates, insert an AUTOTEXT field to
bring in the contents of the AutoText entry. Whenever you redefine the
AutoText entry and update the AUTOTEXT field you will get the most
recent version of the data.

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parkin_m - 08 Jun 2007 10:55 GMT

Thank you for your responses.

I did not explain quite as well the problem, as I thought I Did. I cannot
add a header file to the normal template as not all the templates need the
letter heads and because of the way they are going to be stored etc.

This auto text idea seems to be on the right path however....

So would it be possible for me to have a tabulated header with text inside
it & Bookmarks?? If This is possible then it would be perfect. Then if there
is ever new letter headed paper the 1 letter head can be updated rather than
me needing to change all 100+ of them.

Are there any examples of this you know of Stephan?

Thanks again

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Stefan Blom - 08 Jun 2007 13:22 GMT

Yes, some of the built-in AutoText entries, available from the Header
and Footertoolbar, include tabs. In fact, an AutoText entry can store
anything. For more see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoText.htm.

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