Understanding Building Blocks: The Evolution of Documents

The Building Blocks feature takes the concept of AutoText and makes it smarter. Some types of Building Blocks just insert formatted content at the insertion point, but others do quite a bit more.

For example, insert an entry from the Cover Page gallery, and it will insert as the first page of your document by default, adding a first page header and footer if one isn’t already active for the first section of your document. If you later select a new cover page option for the front of your document, the existing page gets swapped automatically for the new one, but much of the content you added to the cover page remains intact and is automatically formatted to match the new design.

Many Building ...

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