MS Word - calling text from other files

Factual Questions
1

I need to do some fancy stuff with Microsoft Word. I’m talking documents with many, many pages, each containing several different boxes of text, and if I’m very unlucky, illustrations too.

It would actually be more managable if I can write the text in seperate files, and set up the text areas in the main document so they automatically drag in the text from these other files - much like a web page invokes many different files and lays it out for you… So my questions are:

  1. Does Word even do this?
  2. If not, are there any common applications (like Powerpoint?) that do?
  3. If so, is there a way to “solidify” the document so the subsidiary docs are no longer needed?
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  1. Yes, through the use of hyperlink
  2. See #1
  3. Remove link when no longer needed. the only way to “solidify” the document is to cut and paste the other information.

In Word,

  1. Highlight the text you want to represent the other document.
  2. Hit Ctrl+K or go to Insert, then click Hyperlink
  3. Browse for the file.
  4. Click OK

There’s your link, I hope this is what you are asking.
:cool:

3

Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve phrased the question all that well.

The above seems to be most analagous to <A HREF = …>
I’m looking for something more like <FRAME SRC = …>

4

Try toying around with the Insert…Object menu item; it’ll let you stick a subdoc into a master doc, which looks like part of the rest of the doc, but when you doubleclick on it, it will open the subdoc for editing, and any edits are reflected in the master doc. Further experimentation is an exercise for the reader, but i’m pretty certain that it will handle straight text files similarly, editing each of the kid docs after they’ve been indicated, and just need to “compile” with the master doc.

did that make any sense? need coffee…