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"DD" wrote:

> Thanks Al. Definetely cool (I'll save this sample of yours for a future
> need), but not exactly what I'm looking for on this one. Basically, I just
> want a document that looks like this. The brackets <> are conditional text.
> =================================
> ****FULL TEMPLATE****start
> ChinaIndia is an emerging market. The ecomomy
> has experienced unprecendented growth over the last decade. With the
> Olympics coming up this summer, China is poised to experience an explosion in
> key city economies.
> ****FULL TEMPLATE****end
> =================================
> ****INDIA DOCUMENT****start
> India is an emerging market. The ecomomy has experienced unprecendented
> growth over the last decade.
> ****INDIA DOCUMENT****end
> =================================
> ****CHINA DOCUMENT****start
> China is an emerging market. The ecomomy has experienced unprecendented
> growth over the last decade. With the Olympics coming up this summer, China
> is poised to experience an explosion in key city economies.
> ****CHINA DOCUMENT****end
> =================================
>
> The thing is that I need an easy way to "tag" text and then just display a
> version of the tagged text (which could have a lot of rich formatting), then
> switch to another view based on different tags, print/save a tagged version
> (document), without any further work or changes on the master template.
>
> I just don't really have a good place to start to think about this. Is this
> XML (and then what about the display issue of XSLT not affecting the
> formatting, just changing out tagged text?). Is this bookmark ranges where I
> constantly delete/re-add content based on VBA routines?
>
> Appreciate any and all help.
>
> DD
>