Creating a Word document from multiple Word or text files (Word 2010)

Hi,

Where I work people need to create agreements and contracts. These don't tend to change a great deal, so invariably they will go back to old agreements and contracts and copy and paste clauses into new agreements and contracts.

We can create a slightly more elegant solution by using quick parts and autotext, but that's not much good when dealing with a large library of pre-determined text, many of which may only consist of a few lines. They can also only insert autotext or quick parts one at a time.

People can also use the Insert - Object - Text From File option, which also means they can search for clauses (great!). It also means they can select multiple files by pressing Ctrl or Shift to block select text, but I can't seem to choose which order the text gets inserted. If we can choose the order it would be a big help.

Of course there may be other funky ways of achieving the same thing. In essence the requirement is:

- Select multiple Word or text files

- Insert them in the order the user wants

Maybe there's a Word add-in or third party product that enables this?

It may be that the add-in described and offered at http://www.gmayor.com/boiler.htm will do what you want.
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Looks good! Missing a search function, but not the end of the world.

Also if we were going for a third party add-in it would have to be a commercial product backed up with support. Are you aware of any such products?

Thanks.

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Free is a good price. Graham is a Microsoft MVP, and I think you'd find he would provide better (and more personal) support than a commercial provider.
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Free is an excellent price :) And I'm sure Graham is excellent and helpful; however, I couldn't install an (officially) unsupported piece of software on a 'best endeavour' basis on our system, particularly as a few people may quickly become quite depedant on it.

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If it would make you happier, I will quite happily charge you for using it. :)
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Hehe, well if you could promise support hours, SLAs and promised never to be run over by a bus, we'd consider it! :)

Anyway, we are looking at HotDocs for this functionality, which looks like it does what we need and then some.

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