Re: Any ideas for a macro to automate the following.

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Hi Tom,

If every patient's record starts wit a "Heading 1", she can make a backup copy (!!!), go to "View > Outline" and click on the "Create subdocuments" button.
Every "chapter" will be saved as a separate file with the heading as the name, so if the patient's name (or some ID) was in the Heading 1, the subdocuments are easy to identify.

Your wife should throw away the master document though, and continue working with the backup, since master documents are difficult to work with and easily corrupt if you don't know exactly how to handle them.

Greetings,
Klaus


"Tom Wells" <tomers@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> My wife is a medical transcriptionist. She uses Word 2003. A single tape
> from one of her
> physicians would typically include dictation on several patients. Her usual
> practice is to include all of the patients in one long document. This makes
> it much easier and more efficient. Recently her employer has requested that
> she send the .doc files along with the printed results. The only problem is
> that he wants her to save each patient's report as an individual file. She
> could, of course, highlight each patient's report and then save them with
> an individual name, however, this will take some time. Is there any way to
> automate this process? She begins each letter with the current date and ends
> it with the doctor's name. The letters could be from one to several pages in
> length. Could a macro be written to automate the process of highlighting and
> then saving? Please help as this adds considerably to her work load. Thanks.
> Tom
>
>
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