I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002. Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

You might not have the full version of Word installed. You can do a full
install, custom install or basic or minimum install. Based on what you
selected you could be missing some of the functions.

"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002.
Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

G'Day Hattieruth,

Are you in a Master Document that actually HAS subdocuments?
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news
I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002. Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

"Pat Garard" wrote:

G'Day Hattieruth,

Are you in a Master Document that actually HAS subdocuments?
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
_______________________

"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news
I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002. Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

Thank you for your reply. I thought I had moved the subdocuments into the
Master with Drag & Drop but apparently that didn't work. I finally found the
correct button and now it works. Thanks again.

"Pat Garard" wrote:

G'Day Hattieruth,

Are you in a Master Document that actually HAS subdocuments?
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
_______________________

"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news
I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002. Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

Thanks forour reply. How can I tell whether it's a full install or some other?


"Lisa Beach" wrote:

You might not have the full version of Word installed. You can do a full
install, custom install or basic or minimum install. Based on what you
selected you could be missing some of the functions.

"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002.
Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Hattieruth" wrote in message
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I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002.
Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to
use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.

Thank you so much for all your information. Now I understand why I screwed
up. I didn't...the program did! Now I will try to see if I can salvage my
original material. Thanks again

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.
"Hattieruth" wrote in message
news
I cannot use the "expand Subdocuments" button on my version of Word 2002.
Any
ideas?I want to creat a booklet with Table of Contents and am unable to
use
the Help instructions because the buttons they refer to are pale and
unaccessible to me.