atw: Re: Office 2007 - Master documents

Dear Carin (van B)

Word is not Frame.

Using a Word as a master can be a disaster

See the legendary Steve Hudson's article on
Why Word Master Documents Corrupt @
<http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm>

My personal advice is to avoid using them altogether.

They are nothing but trouble in my experience.

Regards,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au


> Hi everyone
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> I've just joined this list and am based in New Zealand working as a
> technical writer for a software company. I'm currently producing a large
> manual in WORD (using Office 2007), and wonder if anyone has any pointers
> about creating Master documents. I've worked in FrameMaker for many years,
> so I'm finding WORD a bit of a grind.
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> I basically have a dozen or so chapters ( approx 30-40 pages in each one)
> and want to be able to create a TOC that has consecutive numbers across
> the
> whole manual.is there any other way of achieving this apart from creating
> a
> Master document with sub-documents (the chapters)? I can't find anything
> about Master documents in the WORD help file???
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> Look forward to your response J
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> Kindest regards
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> Carin
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> Carin van Bolderen
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