Word Heretic might come along and help you out, but most of the people
posting here don¹t know much about master documents, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html

**Workarounds for Master Documents***

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

See the ³Number Pages Across Files² section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature‹for an introduction to them, see he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files
and on the features necessary to write a thesis he
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm


On 9/19/05 4:28 AM, "i_brey" wrote:

Hi! I am writing a thesis with 9 subdocuments in a Master document. All
headings of each subdocument I have given the standard heading style with
outline numbering to. When I open the master document, however, no numbering
appears in front of my headings (although the Master recognizes the heading
levels). I have to go through the entire format, bullets and numbering,
outline, heading process for each heading, then it works. Is there a way to
do this for the entire document at once? It worked in the past for me but now
I am using Word 2003 and it's stopped working. Please help, my deadline is
fast approaching!
Thanks a lot!

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