[robrecht]

I saved a masterdocument with all the subdocuments expanded. When I reopen
the masterdoc, the subdocuments are always collapsed however. As I want to
distribute this file and I am afraid that not everybody is used to working
with subdocuments, I want the subdocuments to appear automatically expanded
in the masterdocument.

Kind regards,

Robrecht

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

As far as I know, you cannot change that behavior.

More importantly, though, the master document feature in Word causes
document corruption; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm. For a safer
approach, use INCLUDETEXT fields. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfm...textfields.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"robrecht" wrote in message
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I saved a masterdocument with all the subdocuments expanded. When I reopen
the masterdoc, the subdocuments are always collapsed however. As I want to
distribute this file and I am afraid that not everybody is used to working
with subdocuments, I want the subdocuments to appear automatically
expanded
in the masterdocument.

Kind regards,

Robrecht

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

As far as I know, you cannot change that behavior.

More importantly, though, the master document feature in Word causes
document corruption; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm. For a safer
approach, use INCLUDETEXT fields. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfm...textfields.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"robrecht" wrote in message
...
I saved a masterdocument with all the subdocuments expanded. When I reopen
the masterdoc, the subdocuments are always collapsed however. As I want to
distribute this file and I am afraid that not everybody is used to working
with subdocuments, I want the subdocuments to appear automatically
expanded
in the masterdocument.

Kind regards,

Robrecht