Quick Parts vs AutoText: When is one a better choice?

One Legal Office Guru reader is trying to replicate her 50+ WordPerfect form letters into Word, and she's using AutoText to do it. But is that the best choice? I propose what I think is a better solution.

00:00 Intro
02:35 Plan of attack for first example
02:59 How to save your templates for easy access
04:06 Enabling the Developer tab on the Ribbon
04:46 Inserting a self-updating date field
06:06 Inserting a drop-down that chooses an address from Quick Parts
10:55 Inserting drop-downs for singular vs. plural
13:09 Saving the template and using it to create a new document
14:53 Second example using date picker drop-down
16:51 Do either of these examples help you?

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