There's a question that has been haunting me for a long time. It's about how to organize and manage requirements spread in multiple Word documents. When I write a FGD, I create a new Word document. Each FGD contains requests about several topics like shipment processes,  B2B, invoices, etc. After several years, I have hundreds of Word documents and I feel the need to aggregate them in some way but found no easy solution.

For example, I'd like to view all requirements related to invoices whatever the FGD they fall in. Or, I'd like to group requirements demanded by such department or for such system or during such period. Ideally, I'd like to split these requirements into basic items that I could view or re-arrange as I want in order to create composite documents on demand. This would allow me to better handle the requirements by domain, improve re-usability and even produce some end users documentation. 

I found it very difficult to achieve these goals with Word alone. I understand that a requirements management tool would be the solution but our organization has not opted for this choice and implementing such a tool is above my position. Well, I have to work with Word and live with it. The alternate solution that could be possible is to work with an editor that would produce fragments of content that one could re-arrange easily in order to build documentation. I don't know if such a tool exists and whether it is easy enough. But I think that the cost of a licence would be affordable for the group.

Did anybody face the same situation? What do you think about organizing Word documents? Is it a vain quest?

What he said.

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Maybe a wiki?