Does Word have all the capabilities to produce a 400-page non-fiction book?

"Phil Ardussi" wrote in message
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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!


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Regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
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More links useful for long documents:
So You Want to Write a Book with Word
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

Many thanks to all of you for your help.

Bud Vitoff