[Bear[_2_]]

Si and Suzanne:

Okay, I did some more testing and found out what's going on. The built-in
styles, like Normal and Heading 1 do not get preserved no matter how you
reply to the messages. (Since I don't use these styles, I didn't notice that
they were not being preserved in the subdocument.)

Styles that you create *do* get renamed when the subdocument is created, and
thus preserve the document's appearance.

So to make master documents work the way you want, you'd have to use custom
style names in the subdocuments, rather than using Normal or any Heading
styles.

In short, master documents aren't going to save you any trouble if you're
using built-in styles.

Bear
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Windows XP, Word 2000