atw: Embedding linked text objects in Word

Hi all

Following the good advice of many of you, I have made the change to Word 2003/ 
Word 2002 in Win XP.

I haven't had too many problems, although these versions of Word seems to start 
spitting if documents get too big (100pp+) - they just hang Not Responding for 
no apparent reason - and of course numbering and incomprehensible and 
unexpected automatic updating of just about everything you don't want to update 
are still a major pain.

But other than that, I seem to be doing OK.

So much so that I am now getting ambitious...

I have a document that has lots of screens throughout. 
One of my users wants all of these reproduced in a separate document with 
different information recorded about each one for testing purposes. 
I am considering using Paste Special > Paste Link to copy the screens into the 
second document, so that I don't have to maintain two sources.
(Kind of like using referenced images in Framemaker, but they are not images, 
just tables, so I'm pasting them as formatted text.)
Do any of you have experience with this? 
Is it reliable, or another dog like master documents?
I've checked that all the links don't break when I move the source document 
from one place to another - Word seems to be able to follow the documents -  
and I've checked that the updating works ok. Any other gotchas I should watch 
out for?

Ultimately what I'd like to do is break the links and save the second document 
in its own right, but there are lots of changes happening at the moment, so 
reducing the maintenance to one source seems very attractive.

Margaret

 
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