See also:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
(which gives instructions for a technical manual, if I remember correctly)
And this page is a collection of links useful to doing long documents,
books, dissertations, etc--things like your manual--in Word:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
legge wrote:
Okay, I'm sure your advice is best!
Now what? What is the best way to create a manual? I need many sections, I
need to create a TOC, I will need to add pages to certain sections over the
course of time, I want each section to start at page 1 so that, in the
future, I can add extra pages without throughing out every page number in the
manual. Please, any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks!
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
The best advice is don't.
See the article "Why Master Documents corrupt" at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm
and if you do, you will probably need to
See the article "How to recover a Master Document" at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"legge" wrote in message
...
I am about to type a very large document with many different categories
(Manual of Operations). I would like each section to start at page 1 and
there will probably be 20 sections with maybe 10 sub-sections in each. I
need more information regarding creating a master document and
subdocuments;
do you think this would be my best choice for creating and if so, where
could
I obtain the best resources for learning how to create this document.
Thanks.