RE: Word and single-sourcing

["Jim Morgan" <Jim -dot- Morgan -at- jdsu -dot- com>]

Hi Joel,

The Word add-on called "Conditional Text" from LiveLinx is a reasonably
inexpensive and easy way to do this. I use it to manage six different
versions of a 250-page manual now. It is buggy and sometimes irritating,
but if you learn how to work with Word bookmarks and paragraph marks
it's a real timesaver. Basically, you just select what you want in a
version and click a button, which inserts a bookmark and highlights it.
When you publish a version, it hides all but the unmarked text and
bookmark(s) for that version.

Regards,
Jim

Jim Morgan
Senior Technical Writer
Seattle, WA

Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with LiveLinx, and your
results may vary.

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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:44:57 -0400
From: "Wilhelm, Joel" <jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com>
Subject: Word and single-sourcing
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I am trying to research a good tool for single-sourcing at my small
business. I am beta testing Frame 8, and have a meeting with DITA
Exchange Server coming up. But in the meantime, all we use is Word, and
I have people asking me questions about how we could do something like
single-sourcing now. 

So let's say we have five products, and a document that has slight
variations for each product. Currently we maintain five completely
separate documents. I'm wondering if we should just get one big old Word
doc, and keep text for separate products in different colors, and then
split it out when publishing to PDF? Or are there better solutions in
Word for this type of thing?

Joel 

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