Word AutoText question

Copper Contributor

Good afternoon. I have a question about reusable content in Word.

 

In MadCap Flare, you set up "projects," and within a project you can create a set of Snippets (reusable content) that can be applied to any document within that project. This is a terrific time saver and helps ensure continuity across documents. I'm not a high-level Word user, so I asked a colleague if Word had a similar content reuse feature and she told me about AutoText in the Quick Parts gallery.

 

My understanding of how this feature works is that when you create autotext content in a document, it lives in that document only. If that's true, then is there a way to add autotext content to a template so that it will be automatically available for all new documents created using that template? Or do you need to manually add autotext content to each Word document in which you want it to appear?

 

I'd appreciate any help with this. Thanks!

2 Replies
Formatted AutoText entries are stored in the Normal.dotm template and are available for use with all documents created from that template.
An alternative is to make use of the Boiler add-in available on the following page of Graham Mayor's website
http://www.gmayor.com/Boiler.htm

OK, thanks for the info. @Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP