Re-use Texts in a Document

Sometimes one has a need to re-use some text in a Doc. It could be a vision and mission statement that is used several times in the doc, or a definition of a term that is used multiple places.

Below I have made two examples that can be used for this scenario.

The text is maintained in a table

tabWiki Reuse text⁠

at the bottom of this page.

Example A

This example provides a selection control that allows the table to be filtered.

Putting this formula [tabWiki Reuse text].Filter([Text Selector].Matches([Select tabWiki Reuse text Column 2])).Text on the canvas will then use the value in the selector and produce the text as shown below.

This approach is handy if it is necessary to frequently change the text that is being displayed. This could be used to include a seasonal message on several pages in the doc, that gets switched from season to season.

Text Selector:

Two

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This is the second row of text

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Example B

In Example B the filter is in the text on the canvas, like this: [tabWiki Reuse text].Filter([Text Selector]="One").Text

This is a simpler approach, if there is no need to switch to different texts over time. This could be used to include a vision statement on different pages, or as a building block to re-use in documents for different customers.

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This is some text. This is bulleted text And this is some more bulleted text. And this is a bullet point with very long text that wraps around to the next line when you get to the end of the very long sentence.

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tabWiki Reuse text

tabWiki Reuse text

Text Selector

Text

One

This is some text.

This is bulleted text

And this is some more bulleted text.

And this is a bullet point with very long text that wraps around to the next line when you get to the end of the very long sentence.

Two

This is the second row of text

There are no rows in this table

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