Conditional Content and Single-Sourcing in MS Word

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33920-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This book shows how to do what many people have long thought impossible—create and use conditional content in MS Word documents. Not just text, but images, headings, and other document elements can be conditioned to be visible or hidden as needed to fit the use of the document. This gives Word users the kind of flexibility that Adobe FrameMaker users have always had. The book shows how to use code fields to create many different documents from a single template file. It shows how to have centralized control of all your documents, and even how to create your own customized content management system, using only MS Office applications—without needing DBMS software, or specialized training in programming or data management.

People who can benefit from this book are not just technical writers, but anyone who has to maintain a library of documents of many types. This can include people who have to create and manage sheafs of business documents for many clients, specification documents for manufacturers, and legal documents. If you have to use Word to deal with a large number of documents of almost any kind, this book can help you streamline your document lifecycle management.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hood, Keith L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. 1. About This Book. 2. Working Along with This Book. 3. Branching And Conditional Content. 4. Making an IF Field Work. 5. Details About IF Fields. 6. Document Properties. 7. Making Conditional Content Manually. 8. Conditional Headings and Captions. 9. Advanced Field Updating. 10. About Source Files. 11. Information About Importing Content. 12. Importing Content from Word Files. 13. Importing Content from Excel Files. 14. Importing Other Files. 15. Converting Fields to Hard Content. 16. Editioning Documents. 17. Setting up Content Management. 18. Recommended Practices. APPENDIX A: Use Cases. APPENDIX B: Keyboard Shortcuts. APPENDIX C: Error Messages. APPENDIX D: More-Complex IF Field Comparisons. APPENDIX E: Problems in Headings and Captions. APPENDIX F: About Embedded Objects. APPENDIX G: Using Relative Path. APPENDIX H: Spell Checker Workaround. APPENDIX I: Miscellaneous Additional Topics.

Über Autor(innen)

Keith L Hood is a former farm hand and oil field worker who graduated from Western Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978. After a tour of duty as an Army officer, during which he was introduced to electronic systems, he retrained in electronics and graduated with honors from Hallmark Institute of Technology with an Associate of Applied Science degree in 1988 (4.0 GPA).

He has worked as a technical instructor, teaching system administration on UNIX servers. And he has been technical writer since 1990, creating software user documentation, hardware maintenance manuals, and training course materials. He has extensive experience with word-processing software applications, both those that include conditional text capabilities and those that do not, such as Adobe FrameMaker, Flare, Robohelp, Word, Wordperfect, and xmetal.