>>>Not a good idea to do that way. Why not to edit data before open Word?<<
>Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear: the user needs to edit the document after it's been created so that all of the bookmarks have been replaced by data from the tables. It's not the data in the tables the user needs to edit but the specific instance of the Word document. This is done only when they need to override the default values or text so it happens in about 1 to 2 per cent of the cases.


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