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Subject:Re: Single sourcing in Word From:"Holly Steele" <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Janet Swisher" <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>, "lara. johnson" <Lara -dot- Johnson -at- cengea -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:53:20 -0500
I used RD fields for the TOC. It is a really useful tool. The problem is
that even if you generate a TOC with all the chapter documents and the main
user manual, you still need a way to put the whole thing together to send
the manual out for review, create a PDF for clients etc.
> On 7/24/08, Holly Steele <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I would like to find a way to single-source documents in Word without
> using
> > master documents.
>
> Try using RD fields:
>http://www.stcuk.org/newsletters/April2006/word-refdoc.htm
>
>
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> Visit my blog at: http://www.janetswisher.com
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