I've just started using word 2007 and I realy love Building Blocks. It's a really user-friendly, veru useful (at least for me), and cool feature with nice UI. Maybe it's far-fetched, but it would be great to have something similar in IQ.
Select the text you would like to save as a Quick Part. This can include text, pictures or any other objects that Office recognizes. There is no size limit. You can actually use an entire document as a Quick Part, such as a cover letter to send out a fee agreement.
Use Alt+F3 to open the Create New Building Block dialog box. This is the fastest route to creating a new Quick Part Building Block.
Give your Quick Part a name. Your name can be as short or as long as you like, but short, of course is better. You will use this name + F3 to execute the Quick Part.
Save it
To have your text, image, etc to be inserted automatically, you just type the name (case insensitive) then punch F3, and you have this text, etc inserted exactly where you have typed the name
What I like about it it's how easy, simple & fast it is. The best way is to try it.
If the list is IQBase specific, then different files will have different list of blocks. If it is program wide, then you have the same list, for all files
I think that program-wide would be better -- there shouldn't be any need to use the same "name" word for different actions, there are endless possibilities to create new ones + having the same "name" word for different actions would be confusing anyway. My only concern is whether either option (grid specific or program-wide) might be better for efficiency (meaning that the program will become too bulky or complex, and thus won't perform as well)?
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