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Re: [External] Question about a publishing company
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Hood)
Fri Sep 19 13:07:58 2025
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From: Keith Hood <klhra@yahoo.com>
To: "Hanson, Paul R" <paul-hanson@uiowa.edu>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l@techwr-l.com>,
Diane Pol <diane.pol@morbark.com>
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I attached a copy of just the TOC. Some of the topics cover more than just=
doing conditional text/content. Being something of an expert in not knowin=
g when to stop, I figured these things can be used to build documents by ha=
ving boilerplate files in which code fields draw content from repository fi=
les.=C2=A0
Frankly, I expect my chances of commercializing this thing are kind of slim=
, but it interested me and for years it gave me something I could do in my =
spare time that felt more useful than crossword puzzles. I think I must hav=
e been an encyclopedia editor in a previous life.=C2=A0 =C2=A0:-)
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Keith Hood
On Friday, September 19, 2025 at 07:34:33 AM CDT, Diane Pol <diane.pol@=
morbark.com> wrote: =20
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I had started on this 25 years ago and was advised to stop, because I was =
"reinventing the wheel".=C2=A0 I wish I had ignored that advice.=C2=A0 Good=
Luck to you, Keith!
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Diane L. Pol
Technical Writer
Morbark, LLC
8507 S. Winn Rd. | P.O. Box 1000 | Winn, MI 48896=20
P: (989) 866-2381 ext. 1120 | F: (989) 866-2280
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aul R
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Subject: RE: [External] Question about a publishing company
Keith!=20
Dude! Don't tease me like that!=20
Can you share your TOC for the book about MS Word code fields?=20
In my environment, and for the foreseeable future, my SMEs use Word files, =
with standardized headings of course, to capture Disaster Recovery informat=
ion about their system, including actual recovery procedures. Those Word fi=
les are all linked from the network drive to my RoboHelp project to generat=
e & publish a browser-based output. Within the Word files, I'm already usin=
g field codes to control the text in the standardized headings by including=
a reference to a bookmark in my "standards" Word file. I also have a macro=
that I run to set the TITLE and SUBJECT property for each Word file in a f=
older to the file name and then I run a 2nd macro to update all the fields =
for each Word file in a folder.=C2=A0 I'm genuinely curious if there's some=
thing I'm not doing now, that I could be, just because I've not read your b=
ook.=20
Thank you in advance!
Paul Hanson
IT Manager - Disaster Recovery (as of 8-25-2025) | Technical Support & Impl=
ementation University of Iowa Health Care Information Systems
0405-C28 HSSB=C2=A0| Coralville, IA 52241
Useful Links:
Helpdesk-HCIS@uiowa.edu=C2=A0|=C2=A0macdesk-hcis@healthcare.uiowa.edu=C2=A0=
| Customer Feedback?
Change Healthcare Password=C2=A0|=C2=A0Change HawkID Password=C2=A0|=C2=A0H=
CIS Web Request Epic Training Resources=20
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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025 9:54 AM
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Subject: [External] Question about a publishing company
<snip>
I've been trying to interest publishers in printing a book I cooked up, abo=
ut ways to use MS Word code fields to create conditional content in Word do=
cuments.=20
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