Re: Single-sourcing Using MS Word

[Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

I believe if you're willing to use an additional tool that Doc-to-Help would be a good choice. I've used it with Word as the source document, made all my changes in Word and then updated my Doc-to-Help project to create web help output or html help output. I'm pretty sure you could create multiple outputs that way.

When I evaluated tools in this category a couple years ago, Doc-to-Help was the only one that didn't choke on my complex Word documents.

Best regards,

Mike
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Sue McKinney wrote:
> All, my group uses MS Word 2003. We're looking for a way to single-source from a master Word doc to individual Word docs. I've tried Steve's Hudson's Editioning template/macro, but it can't handle either all the tables or all the small graphics within the tables. It chokes unless I remove all of them. Unfortunately our notes, warnings, etc. are done using small tables with graphics for each type of indicator.
>  
> Does anyone have any ideas? I'm not a macro expert. Steve's macro determines what to include based on highlighting, which is a great idea because it's easy to differentiate in the master. But you can't edit the macro.
>  
> I've thought about creating the doc in RoboHelp and using its output to single-source, but in my experience you have to do quite a bit of cleanup and then there's the issue of cover page/toc/etc. that would have be inserted separately, I think.
>  
> Anyway, any help/ideas would be appreciated. We're trying to avoid maintaining multiple sets of documents.
>  
> Sue
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