MS Word Question

[youngda]

Although this is Mr Excel, I figure people can probably answer my question about using VBA with Word. I would like to create a document which, upon opening, asks the user for several inputs. The answers to each question will cause the document to add or subtract certain paragraphs of text within the document. Does anyone know what method I should use to insert the text? Are bookmarkst the way to go, or is there some other way of putting in flags in the document so that the VBA knows to put a paragraph in certain spot. Your guys' help is always appreciated,

David

 

[gwkenny]

You've probably got your answer already....

I've done this for a number of templates. Law firms are big on stuff like this for boilerplate disclosure, agreements and indentures.

Bookmarks is the way to go. Also populating the document with key words (like client name/address/etc...). Could also use styles and styleref field code.

There are a number of ways to do this, and one method might not be particularly better than another.

I've also done this where the template builds off the fly from separate Word documents. Did this because everyone at the firm was clueless about how to use Word and could not grasp the template/bookmark concept. I didn't want to perform maintenance forever. Much easier for me to program Word to create documents off the fly from separate "source" Word documents. Then the firm could just change the text in a "source" file and not have to worry about styles, bookmarks, etc....