Re: Single-sourcing with Word (an extension to Large Documents in Word)

[Susan W Gallagher <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com>]

It's been there since the very beginning, cleverly disguised as mail merge
capabilities. First, create a variable, for example Build_Id. Put an ASK
field at the beginning of the document to be able to enter a value for the
variable. Then, when you want conditional text, use an IF-THEN-ELSE field.

If you need more help than that, googling "conditional text in word" will
lead you to a lot of how to articles and videos.

HTH
-Sue Gallagher



On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Something that occurred to me over the long weekend was that I usually
> generate 2 or more documents from the same set of FrameMaker files by using
> conditional text and a settings file.
>
> I can't find ANYTHING that tells me if Word has an equivalent or
> near-equivalent way of doing this. The only thing I've seen about
> conditional text seems to involve fields or forms, and I have no experience
> or any real knowledge of these.
>
> Is there any way to use Word to create more than one variant of a document?
> For example, in FrameMaker I might have conditions for information that is
> shown only to Internal customers, only to External customers (usually the
> title and legal information), or only to a SPECIFIC customer.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Lin Sims
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