Re: Single-sourcing Using MS Word

["Deborah Hemstreet" <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>]

Hi Sue,
Have you checked into the latest version of Flare? I have been very
impressed by its capabilities. They do have a single-source work-flow, but
you should check into it to see if it is a flow you can work with.

Deborah

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Sue McKinney <smckinn2001 -at- yahoo -dot- com> 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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