Jim Palik wrote:

The disadvantage to using word for a project such as yours is that
word does not work well for handling large (150 pages or more)
documents.

This will be news to the many people who produce documents of hundreds or
thousands of pages in Word.

2. Write in individual chapter length documents. Then, tie them
together using Word's Master Document or Referenced Document
functions. There is a good artical "Building Books in Word" in The
Society for Technical Communications (STC) August 2005 Intercom
[magazine] on how to use Reference Document.


The Master Document facility in Word is notorious for corrupting documents
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm

There is no reason why a book cannot be prepared as a single document. If
repagination becomes a problem on a slower PC, then work in normal view with
background repagination switched off.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org