[duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list

  • From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:19:37 -0000

Hi Richard,

Excellent suggestion which works very well.

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benham, Richard, ,PFPA [mailto:RBenham@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 January 2003 20:52
> To: 'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
> 
> 
> I have a suggestion for this process.  Why not go into word 
> and use the insert option.  for keyboard users, while in 
> word, press alt-i for insert, press the letter l for file and 
> then type in your file name.  Word will insert the file into 
> the document right where the cursor is.  Just repeat this 
> process for every file you would want to place into the 
> document.  Then save the document.  Then go into dbtwin and 
> pull up the document using the word importer. This is just a 
> suggestion.  If anyone else has a better idea, feel free to 
> leave a suggestion.
> 
> 
> Richard Benham
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dresser [mailto:s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Another item for the wish list
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to see an option in the File Menu that would allow a 
> file to be 
> inserted into an already existing document.  To understand 
> why, consider 
> the following scenario:
> 
> I am assembling a newsletter consisting of several articles, 
> each of which 
> comes to me in a separate file.  Since I want the final 
> result to be a DBT 
> file, I start by importing the first article into DBT.  For 
> each subsequent 
> article, I have  to open the file, select all of it, copy it to the 
> clipboard, close it, go back to my original file, and paste 
> in the contents 
> of the clipboard.  While this is certainly doable, the 
> process would be 
> much simpler if there was an option that allowed me to insert 
> each new 
> article into my original file at the location of the cursor.
> 
> Steve
> 
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