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What is a VB Document (Visual Basic Document)?
A VB document (Visual Basic Document)is an MS Word document that has been automated withVisual Basic for Applications...
What is VBA for Word?
VBA for Wordis a term used specifically in reference to the concept of buildingdocument automation(document assembly) characteristics intoMS Word documents...
How to Claim Your Share of Document Automation Treasure
Seth Rowland ofBasha Systemshas been buildingdocument workflow automationsolutions since 1996...
MS Word Macros: Two Types and Neither Is Great for Document Assembly
MS Word Macrosis a method by which you can automate a word-processing task that you have to perform repeatedly...
Word Macros for Document Assembly: The Data-Gathering Problem
Word Macros, which can be divided into two groups—simple keystroke macros and conditional macros, orVisual Basic for Applications—are powerful extensions toMS Word; however,Word Macrosare frequently used to build document assembly templates, a task for which Word Macros are not well suited...
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 phraseDocument Assembly, a term descriptive of the process of using the software application (commonly referred to as a template) to generate..
VBA and Macros and the Cost of Building a Bathroom
VBA(Visual Basic for Applications) is a powerful scripting language that can build serious functionality intoMS Word Macros...
MS Word + HotDocs = Intelligent Document
A common definition forIntelligent Documentrefers specifically todocument assembly templates, such as are commonly built indocument assembly(document automation) platforms...
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...