Judith McCrea: You wrote: > To quote from Miscrosoft's Most Valued Profesional web site: > > "A master document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about to be > corrupt" > > http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm > > I agree with Jonathan: this feature worked in Word 6.... <snip> > ... There's always one lucky person in a group :=) I tried it for some documents for a Defence department contract involving hundreds of pages. Only tried it once.... fortunately had backed all files... Finished up using a script that took RTF output for each file, concatenating them all into one document and then saving in Word. Making changes to the Word document would have taken eons. The submarines didn't seem to work all that well, either... -PeterM peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The best way to predict your future is to create it. ************************************************** 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 **************************************************