atw: Re: Embedding linked text objects in Word

Word reliably handles dox 1k+ pages, so it must be something you are doing.
Usual suspect is list templates, next is tables.

Numbering - I have an excellent free article on that (requires VBA) if you
request it.

K, images - here is what I do

During doc development ALL gfx are kept external and linked. I use inline
with text layout as much as possible.

If I need to export the document to someone, I load it up, save as, then use
Edit > Links to break all gfx links (eg embed pictures)

As for master docs, I have the only article in the world on using those too,
in the mag at tech whirlers.

Steve Hudson

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-----Original Message-----
From: margp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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