I have created a system whereby a document is created by starting with a base master document, and then inserting 17 individual subdocuments via code to create a single document.
This all works fine, and the subdocuments are sectioned off nicely to allow for edits to these documents to cascade down to all other documents that include them.
However. Once a document is final, and sent out a customer, it needs to remain unchanged. We do PDF the docs and send the customer the PDF, but I can't have the Word documents changing because someone edits a subdocument elsewhere. This would lead to the situation where we no longer have the original word document from which a PDF was created.
I need to find a way to 'bake' a word document to take it from a collection of subdocuments back into a single (not reliant on anything else) document.
Any suggestions??? I havn't been able to find a way of doing this yet.
This all works fine, and the subdocuments are sectioned off nicely to allow for edits to these documents to cascade down to all other documents that include them.
However. Once a document is final, and sent out a customer, it needs to remain unchanged. We do PDF the docs and send the customer the PDF, but I can't have the Word documents changing because someone edits a subdocument elsewhere. This would lead to the situation where we no longer have the original word document from which a PDF was created.
I need to find a way to 'bake' a word document to take it from a collection of subdocuments back into a single (not reliant on anything else) document.
Any suggestions??? I havn't been able to find a way of doing this yet.