Using macros to generate customer-specific documents from a single-source file in MS-Word

[Kunzang <kunzang -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi there,


Has anyone tried using macros to generate various customer-specific
documents from a source file in Microsoft Word? Can it be done? How
much is the effort involved?


We have a 400-page document that gets updated very frequently by many
developers at various sites. We are currently using styles in the Word
document to differentiate texts that are customer specific, and I am
manually porting it to Frame and adding conditional texts. The
document gets updated very frequently with lots of changes. The whole
process is very tedious and prone to error.

We figured out that this can be done using conditional texts in MS
Word but then we need to buy a separate license. However, this file is
modified by lots of people at different sites and so buying separate
license for so many people is not justifiable to the management.


Has anyone has been in a similar situation? What did you do?

Thanks in advance for your inputs.


Best regards,
Kunzang
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