"the master document feature of MS word?" Here be dragons. Even for one person, let alone a group. If you want to try that path the master document feature of OpenOffice.org's Writer, like that of Word 6, does work. And the content is held in an XML-like file. It even costs very little apart from learning its own foibles. Jonathan Moffett -- Jonathan Moffett moff28@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************