RE: Editors that support conditionals

[Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com>]

Adding the extra text and applying those character styles is just a quick Find & Replace (I've done it).

But maybe I misunderstood the OP; if the Marketing folks are also maintaining the source document, then Robert's method is safer for the Great Unwashed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Editors that support conditionals

Kludging conditional text with hidden-text character styles is complicated and time-consuming and a technically challenged marketing person could easily screw things up.

Mail merge is much cleaner and marketing will get a set of clean Word documents with no funny stuff requiring explanation.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Dan Goldstein wrote:

> 1. Make sure the source document is set up with proper paragraph styles.
> 2. Create character styles to mark the "sibling" versions of similar text.
> 3. Create a separate template for each sibling version, in which all but the relevant sibling styles are defined in that template as hidden.
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