>I've got a client that wants to create contract clauses in Word. What I want to be able to do from VFP is read the .doc file and give them a picklist of all the clauses that are found in the file, let them select the ones they want and then stuff the actual clause data into the contract.doc file the VFP app is creating. For example:
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>Scaffolding:
>This is the clause about scaffolding...
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>Cleanup:
>This is the clause about cleanup...
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>So the VFP picklist would contain Scaffolding and Cleanup.
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>How can I structure the the clauses.doc file so it's easy to get at from VFP and easy for them to create new clauses. Each clause on a separate page? use bookmarks? use a particular styles for the name and clause? something else????

I have developed similar automated publishing apps that contruct a document/publication depending on various selections. I found it easier to store the paragraphs, graphics, etc. in fields or pointers to files, and construct the document once the selection is done. The advantage of storing the actual referances in a db file is that it gives many ways to select the data to merge. You can have multiple conditions that simply merging would not support. My .02