I am asking for advice from the Lounge before I kill myself trying to achieve the impossible. I am at a complete loss on what to do.
I have been assigned the task of creating new templates that will be distributed to our various divisions throughout the UK. Each template has to have their regional address. The sheer amount, minimum of 5 divisions, 12 templates for each, and 12 regional offices. I just got the brief today and management want all in 14 days time. (And I only work part time!)
Details:
In the top left corner of the page will be a company logo and name (all scanned as a picture, because we use a custom font that no one would have on their pc outside the company)
In the top right hand corner of the page, parallel with the company logo will be the return address
Immediately underneath the company logo and name, they would like a drop down box that lets you chose which division you work for, such as Management Services, Facilities Management etc etc. There are 6 to chose from as it must include a default blank because some of us poor slobs work for the company in general and don’t need to include a division
So far so good. I can handle this much. But now here come the hard part
Depending on the choice in the drop-down box, the contents of the return address will change, because each division has their own switchboard and e-mail addresses. AND
Also depending on the choice in the drop down box, the contents of a strapline, the blurb at the bottom of the page, will change. So if the dropdown is default and therefore blank, the strapline will read “ABC is dedicated to making the IT Department’s life a misery” If the dropdown says Management Services, the strapline will read “ABC Management Services is dedicated to making the IT Department’s life even a bigger misery”
Conditions:
Templates are to stay on the C drive
No one knows VB
We have been instructed not to change the Normal Template, so I am guessing that Autotext is out.
We don’t use Access
Words of wisdom please and some of consolation wouldn’t go amiss