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Subject:Re: Modular Approach in MS Word From:Peter Kleczka <pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
Paul
You may have answered your own question :)
Why not create a master list of fields
in MS Access and then create fields in
your Word docs that query a specific
row in your Access DB? Check Word's
online help for information on linking
to an Access table.
HTH
Peter Kleczka (pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com)
--- Paul Gerle <PaulG -at- mdli -dot- com> wrote:
> Obviously, the same field may be displayed on
> multiple screens, and when I
> complete the set of Use Cases, I want to compile a
> master list of fields
> (for external language translation) WITHOUT going
> through many Word
> documents manually
[cut...]
> It's like a one-to-many (many-to-many?) relationship
> in Access. Each field
> name should be stored once, used many.
>
> Any ideas???
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