How to make Quick Parts more intelligent in MS Word?
The easiest thing you probably could do is just require sales folk to use Find and Replace to find s’s and replace them with s’. This assumes, however, that there is never a case where you want s’s anywhere else in the document. In which case, you would want to use the advanced options in Find and Replace to find only the particular style where the company’s name appears. (As in, you would have to make that field in your template a different style originally, so you would have something to search for.) Also, you can do a Find and Replace for fields using the Special option in the Find and Replace advanced options. If you want something more automated, I think you’ll have to take two different approaches for your Mac and PC users. With Macs, you can easily write an AppleScript that does the same Find and Replace operation. With PCs, I think you’ll have to use VB. Either way, your sales folks would still have to remember to run the script. But, if all these documents have to go to you fi