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Visual Basic Automation: The Wrong Approach for Document Generation
April 2, 2018Visual Basic automationis a broad term that could refer to many aspects of Visual Basic programming or possibly to Visual Basic for Applications programming...
What is a VB Document (Visual Basic Document)?
April 2, 2018A VB document (Visual Basic Document)is an MS Word document that has been automated withVisual Basic for Applications...
What is VBA for Word?
April 2, 2018VBA 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
April 2, 2018Seth Rowland ofBasha Systemshas been buildingdocument workflow automationsolutions since 1996...
MS Word Macros: Two Types and Neither Is Great for Document Assembly
April 2, 2018MS 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
April 2, 2018Word 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
April 2, 2018In 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
April 2, 2018VBA(Visual Basic for Applications) is a powerful scripting language that can build serious functionality intoMS Word Macros...
MS Word + HotDocs = Intelligent Document
April 2, 2018A common definition forIntelligent Documentrefers specifically todocument assembly templates, such as are commonly built indocument assembly(document automation) platforms...