Word Templates, Macros, and Boot Heels

Probably more than any other question that our sales reps get asked is this: “Can’t I do the same thing with Word Templates and Macros?

Word Macros for Document Production: The Reusable Component Problem

Word macros is a commonly employed technology to automate the production of repetitive documents, a practice commonly referred to by a variety of names, including document assembly, document automation, and document generation.

BPM and Document Generation: Two Common Use Cases Involving HotDocs

Given the relative flexibility of the major BPM suites and HotDocs (the most powerful and flexible of thedocument generationRAD platforms), an almost infinite number of use cases could emerge.

MS Word + HotDocs = Intelligent Document

A common definition for Intelligent Document refers specifically to document assembly templates, such as are commonly built in document assembly (document automation) platforms.

VBA and Macros and the Cost of Building a Bathroom

Why VBA and Macros are a poor choice for building document assembly templates in Word, like adding a new bathroom to a house.

Document Assembly, Document Automation, and Document Generation: Three Terms that Describe the Same Thing

In the mid 1970s, when a group at the Brigham Young University Law School set out to create a software application that would automate the production of rule-based legal documentation, the group coined the phrase Document Assembly, a term descriptive of the process of using the software application (commonly referred to as a template) to generate a custom document.

Word Macros for Document Assembly: The Data-Gathering Problem

Word Macros, which can be divided into two groups—simple keystroke macros and conditional macros, or Visual Basic for Applications—are powerful extensions to MS Word; however, Word Macros are frequently used to build document assembly templates, a task for which Word Macros are not well suited.

MS Word Macros: Two Types and Neither Is Great for Document Assembly

MS Word Macros is a method by which you can automate a word-processing task that you have to perform repeatedly.

How to Claim Your Share of Document Automation Treasure

Seth Rowland of Basha Systems has been building document workflow automation solutions since 1996.

What is VBA for Word?

VBA for Word is a term used specifically in reference to the concept of building document automation (document assembly) characteristics into MS Word documents.

What is a VB Document (Visual Basic Document)?

A VB document (Visual Basic Document) is an MS Word document that has been automated with Visual Basic for Applications.

Visual Basic Automation: The Wrong Approach for Document Generation

Visual Basic automation is a broad term that could refer to many aspects of Visual Basic programming or possibly to Visual Basic for Applications programming.

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