Chapter 6. Merging SharePoint List Datainto Word Documents

Organizations often have sets of document templates that are used throughout the enterprise. It can be a challenge to make sure that information workers are uniformly using the latest template and capturing the appropriate metadata everywhere the document templates are used. It is not unusual for some templates to share common data elements such as customer information or product details. Often authors, who are responsible for working with these templates, are retyping, cutting and pasting, or otherwise repetitively importing data elements into the appropriate places in the document. Furthermore, they may use a completely separate application to locate and maintain the data set. In this ...

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