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Does Word have all the capabilities to produce a 400-page non-fiction book?
"Phil Ardussi" wrote in message news I'd like to see someone suggest BudV stay away from the Master Document schema in 2007. Faithe and Herb Tyson, especially Herb, have warned readers about this in their excellent books about MS-Word 2007. 400 pages with a well-designed template doesn't need to be broken up into separate chapters. Word is pergectly capable of handling that size of book in a single file, and has been since about Word 2000. (Earlier than that, and you had to be very nice to Word to get it to behave with a book of that size!) However, if you want to break a book up into separate chapters (pehaps becausew different chapters have different authors), then I would definitely recommend keeping away from Master Documents. The following article describes why. Why Master Documents corrupt http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm Broadly, you have two choices when putting the book together. Either insert all the chapters in order into a single file and then save it, or create a multi-file Table of Contents as described in this article Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148 Yes, there is some VBA involved in this, and yes, it might frighten people not used to it, but if you want to a tool to create a 400-page book, you do need to take the trouble of learning how to use its capabilities! -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Does Word have all the capabilities to produce a 400-page non-fictionbook?
More links useful for long documents:
So You Want to Write a Book with Word http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm |
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Does Word have all the capabilities to produce a 400-page non-fiction book?
Many thanks to all of you for your help.
Bud Vitoff |
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