Re: Creating a Large Document using Insert File Link

I'm sorry, you were right the outputted files are .doc files named for the
date YYYYMMDD.doc

What is the easiest way to combine them all in date order w/o manually
inserting each file?



"Jezebel" wrote:

1. Your inputters should be using the the .dot files as templates, so the
files you get back should be .doc files. If not, you haven't explained to
them well enough how to install the and use the templates.

2. From your description, simply combining all the docs into one big one
should be fine, particularly as it's just a yearly one-off and presumably
you don't need to do anything with the finished document except print it.





"NYSA-HD" <NYSAHD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Basically we have a group of inputters who record data that gets written
in a
journal for each date a meeting takes place. We have automated their job
by
creating .dot files for each form type for the journal entry and have text
files inserted by macros that feed the majority of the templates. When
they
open Word we have a form where they enter the date and it grabs the text
and
completes the form and asks them any variable questions. It auto saves
the
file by date in a network folder. At the end of each year we need to
combine
all of these individual files into one document w/ page numbers and common
headers and footers - also a TOC and Index with a title page. We don't
see
an easy way to page number w/o combining somehow. The document does not
have
graphics...mostly straight text w/ index markers and styles. There are
macros which run our application, but they don't need to be there when it
is
combined.

What do you think is the best way to handle this?
Have I provided enough background info.



"Jezebel" wrote:

1. It would help if you explained why you need to combine the files in
the
first place. What will you do with the compound document that you can't
do
with the individual files?

2. 2000 pages isn't so massive anyway, unless the files contain a lot of
graphics or complex tables. You could just build an ordinary document.

3. Why are you working with .dot files?




"NYSA-HD" <NYSAHD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am creating a 2000 page book from several smaller files. I have a
directory where there is a file named for each date the file was
created.
For example, 20060102, 20060105, etc.... Where the filenames are
YYYYMMDD.
There may not be a file for every date, but all files are named by
date.
I
would like to avoid master documents because of corruption issues. My
thought was to create a document with my headers and page numbers for
each
months worth of files. In each month document I need a macro that would
go
out and look to the directory and insert each file in the month
directory
into the new file in sequencial order as a linked file. The field
codes I
am
looking to drop are { INCLUDETEXT "U:\\Project\\20060102.dot"}, etc...
so
that the macro would just read the files in the folder and insert the
includetext field for each file in the folder in order. When I look at
the
final document for each month it would be all data for all dates, but I
could
update the files individually and would automatically update the month
document.

Is anything like this possible? Is there a better way to do such a
document
creation?






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