How to Map Word Quick Parts fields to a SharePoint Document Library Document Template

As a result of the Document Library Deep Dive presentation I did at the vSharePoint (Victoria SharePoint User’s Group) on Thursday, the following question came up (how do you map SharePoint list data to a Word document, generated as a report). The query: http://www.meetup.com/vSharePoint/messages/boards/thread/7787717

My response to that query can be found here (more detail there, in regards to answering that question directly). But it did prompt me to create the following quick video demonstrating “How to Map Word Quick Parts fields to a SharePoint Document Library Document Template” – thus you can generate new Word Documents, mapped to custom columns *and* display that document data, inside your document (examples might be displaying document version, document owners, department, etc.).

Here’s what the following video will demonstrate:

1. Create a document library and some custom columns
2. Modify the default Word Template (Content Type) in SharePoint Designer
3. Plug in Word Quick Parts to attach the content to the Document
4. Create a new document, bound to the columns in the Document Library

Video link: http://screencast.com/t/zktF21Av0