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explaination of include file?
Can someone give me an overview of how to use a master document with other
word documents "included?" Thanks, Keith |
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explaination of include file?
The short answer to your question is don't do that. The master document
function doesn't work well and will eventually destroy your document. Combine your documents into one large document. Word can work quite happily with huge documents. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word keith brickey wrote: Can someone give me an overview of how to use a master document with other word documents "included?" Thanks, Keith |
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explaination of include file?
Hi Keith, Short answer: Don't. Long answer: Word's 'Master Document' feature is unreliable and prone to document destruction. Instead, you can use an ordinary document with 'INCLUDETEXT' fields to consolidate the material in other documents, or 'RD' fields to create a common Table of Contents for a group of documents. Word's help file has more information on how to use these fields. Cheers ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.WordForums.com/ |
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explaination of include file?
I disagree with Graham. I have used W2002 and now W2003
and find that Word copes just as badly in both master / sub and "one large file" The problems I have faced, centers around TOC's on each chapter. Whilst perform this action within on long document - I get to fourth of fifth chapter before I get the error message "There are too many edits in the document. This operation will be incomplte. Please save your work" When I use master and subs - I get to the seventh or eighth before receiving the same error. NOTE: I have plenty of HDD and RAM! So my best advice is go but something like Adobe Frame maker to handle large documents!!! -----Original Message----- The short answer to your question is don't do that. The master document function doesn't work well and will eventually destroy your document. Combine your documents into one large document. Word can work quite happily with huge documents. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word keith brickey wrote: Can someone give me an overview of how to use a master document with other word documents "included?" Thanks, Keith . |
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explaination of include file?
There are many users of this newsgroup who regularly produce large documents
in single files. I personally have produced books of hundreds of pages, and I know of fellow contributors who have produced documents of thousands of pages. The point I was trying to get over was that the Master document function is broken. It does not work correctly in any version of Word. If you prefer to use Framemaker then I have no argument with your choice, but that's a different issue entirely. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word Phil Woollacott wrote: I disagree with Graham. I have used W2002 and now W2003 and find that Word copes just as badly in both master / sub and "one large file" The problems I have faced, centers around TOC's on each chapter. Whilst perform this action within on long document - I get to fourth of fifth chapter before I get the error message "There are too many edits in the document. This operation will be incomplte. Please save your work" When I use master and subs - I get to the seventh or eighth before receiving the same error. NOTE: I have plenty of HDD and RAM! So my best advice is go but something like Adobe Frame maker to handle large documents!!! -----Original Message----- The short answer to your question is don't do that. The master document function doesn't work well and will eventually destroy your document. Combine your documents into one large document. Word can work quite happily with huge documents. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word keith brickey wrote: Can someone give me an overview of how to use a master document with other word documents "included?" Thanks, Keith . |
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explaination of include file?
I've had documents with thousands of pages, cross-references, footnotes, and
a table of contents. Word handles it well. I suspect that your problems arise from using direct formatting rather than styles. Unnecessary section breaks can also make documents more fragile. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/doc...corruption.htm. I agree with Graham that the master document feature is to be avoided. http://addbalance.com/word/masterdocument.htm. While I haven't used it, the combination of INCLUDETEXT fields and RD fields to break a large document into smaller chunks has been used successfully by many. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Phil Woollacott" wrote in message ... I disagree with Graham. I have used W2002 and now W2003 and find that Word copes just as badly in both master / sub and "one large file" The problems I have faced, centers around TOC's on each chapter. Whilst perform this action within on long document - I get to fourth of fifth chapter before I get the error message "There are too many edits in the document. This operation will be incomplte. Please save your work" When I use master and subs - I get to the seventh or eighth before receiving the same error. NOTE: I have plenty of HDD and RAM! So my best advice is go but something like Adobe Frame maker to handle large documents!!! -----Original Message----- The short answer to your question is don't do that. The master document function doesn't work well and will eventually destroy your document. Combine your documents into one large document. Word can work quite happily with huge documents. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word keith brickey wrote: Can someone give me an overview of how to use a master document with other word documents "included?" Thanks, Keith . |
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