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Subject: Re: [External] Question about a publishing company
From: Keith Soltys <keith -at- soltys -dot- ca>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:07:18 -0400

I'm not the Keith who posted the first message in this thread, but I have successfully used conditional text in Word but I did it using a tool called SmartDocs from 360Software. I was able to create multiple versions of a protocol specification that was more than 300 pages long and quite complex. You can use it for other things, like creating templates for users and managing variables. and text snippets. I was quite happy with it and it made my life a lot easier.

https://www.36software.com/smartdocs/features

It is expensive, or was, when I was working at the Toronto Stock Exchange I've been retired for seven years now so I don't know how the product has changed or what the current pricing is like.

Regards
Keith


On 2025-09-19 8:33 a.m., Diane Pol wrote:

I had started on this 25 years ago and was advised to stop, because I was "reinventing the wheel". I wish I had ignored that advice. Good Luck to you, Keith!


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Subject: RE: [External] Question about a publishing company

Keith!

Dude! Don't tease me like that!

Can you share your TOC for the book about MS Word code fields?

In my environment, and for the foreseeable future, my SMEs use Word files, with standardized headings of course, to capture Disaster Recovery information about their system, including actual recovery procedures. Those Word files are all linked from the network drive to my RoboHelp project to generate & publish a browser-based output. Within the Word files, I'm already using field codes to control the text in the standardized headings by including a reference to a bookmark in my "standards" Word file. I also have a macro that I run to set the TITLE and SUBJECT property for each Word file in a folder to the file name and then I run a 2nd macro to update all the fields for each Word file in a folder. I'm genuinely curious if there's something I'm not doing now, that I could be, just because I've not read your book.

Thank you in advance!

Paul Hanson
IT Manager - Disaster Recovery (as of 8-25-2025) | Technical Support & Implementation University of Iowa Health Care Information Systems
0405-C28 HSSBÂ| Coralville, IA 52241

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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 9:54 AM
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Subject: [External] Question about a publishing company

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I've been trying to interest publishers in printing a book I cooked up, about ways to use MS Word code fields to create conditional content in Word documents.
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