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Replacing a word with a word from another document?

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DubSport

IS-IT--Management
Sep 3, 2002
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CA
I have a large technical document that I want to send out to multiple companies, but I do not want to have to go through and customize it for every different company. I want to be able to quickly change the <companyname>, <contactname>, and many other fields without having to do it manually (search&replace, etc.). I want to have a seperate document that I will fill out that is like a database, eg.
CompanyName: WIDGETS Inc.
ContactName: John Doh
ManyOtherFields: etc. etc.

And then once I fill in this one database document, I just run a macro or something that will go in and replace everything <companyname> in the Technical document, with WIDGETS Inc.(from the database document) and the same for all other fields.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
TIA,
...Jamie


 
DubSport,

Read more on &quot;Mail Merge&quot;. This will solve your problem. There is also a Mail Merge Wizard that comes with Word. If you are using Word 2002, click Tools->Letters and Mailings->Mail Merge Wizard.

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