We're using Word XP.

We reviewed Steve's article, but sense we have such a large number of
relatively inexperienced word processors (usually engineers, accountants,
analysts, etc.), who wish to use this, we think it unlikely that all rules
could be followed all the time.

Thanks for the reports on the other IncludeText issues.

Chip


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
Interesting....

IncludeText fields have a little weirdness with filepaths, and fields
within
fields:
http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm#FilePaths
http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.ht...dsWithinFields

But the MVPs just helped me put together this article, and no one
mentioned
your problem, so thanks much, that is a biggie for long documents. What
version of Word was that?

Alternatively, here is Charles' other recommendation:
Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html

DM

On 8/3/05 7:36 AM, "Chip Orange" wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I will go read the material you referenced.

What we found yesterday, when we tried IncludeText, was that it
immediately
had formatting issues when you did an "update field" in the "master".
In
particular, it translated invisible style separators into visible
paragraph
marks, and so, changed the line break and pagination where they were
used in
the subdoc.

Are there known issues with IncludeText like this? Are style separators
so
unusual that if we eliminated their use, we could count on IncludeText
otherwise working ok?

Thanks.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Use a common template and you can include parts that are in separate
documents using IncludeText fields. Look at Steve Hudson's methods for
using
Master Documents and decide whether you would be able to enforce
following
them.
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"Chip Orange" wrote in message
...
Since we're talking about master doc feature here, I'd like to ask:

We have a need to create a large doc collaboratively, with many
authors
working on sub doc portions concurrently. We need someone to
routinely
be
able to put the entire doc together, print it, and otherwise review
it.

We are being (the IT shop) asked repeatedly about master doc feature,
and
are passing on the advice we read here that it's not safe, but we have
little to offer in its place except copy and paste (our formatting
requirements are rigid).

Any suggestions on how we should best accomplish this?

Thanks.

Chip



p.s.

We did have a short try with includetext fields, and found on ocasions
they
too caused problems with improper formatting of the final doc.








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