A person responsible for the production of a large document often solicits the help of many contributors. Examples would include the production of reports, manuals, and proposals. Distributing and consolidating sections of these documents is often a challenging task.
An Office/Mail-based solution can ease the process. A Word template can be created with custom commands to create sections, distribute them to contributors via electronic mail, track their status, and consolidate them into the original document. All this can be accomplished within Word in the context of the document being worked on.