Hi Alexandra_60,

I am having major problems using this feature, I always save the
document the same way, In Outline View - Collapsing the subdocuments
and saving the master document.

Sometimes the work is all there when I come to use it again, others it
isn't and I have to insert all the subdocuments again.... am I going
wrong somewhere???

As Jonathan and Charles indicate, the Master Document feature is not
terribly stable. It was actually designed to pull separate documents
together for generating TOCs, Indexes and then printing out the entirety
as one file, with common headers/footers.

When used for that purpose, it's not a problem. Problems crop up,
however, when one tries to use it as an editing tool. Sub-documents
should never be edited from within the Master document (except for
creating cross-references), nor as separate documents when they're
opened in the Master document. Nor should they be re-ordered while in an
opened state.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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