There seems to be a substantial amount of material written about why you
should NOT use Master Documents. The following was provided in response to
an earlier post of mine:

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How wedded are you to using the Master Document feature? I would highly
recommend using other means to achieve your ends. Check out these links
for why master documents are best avoided:

http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm

Just a little quote to spark your interest (from
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm):

Master documents have been fatally buggy since Word 6, and remain so
through Word 2000. If you use them you lose them. They must never be
used for valuable text.

There is no way to successfully and safely use master documents. They
always corrupt eventually.


Thomas Campitelli

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I wish to clarify my understanding of the Master/Sub model. If I am not
using the features associated with
the Outline View toolbar (Expand, Create, Insert, Remove, Split
Sub-document), but instead using the
Insert - File - Insert File as Link feature of Word, will this cause
problems in managing a large document?

Is there a limit to the number of links (relative or absolute) that Word can
handle in a single document?

The version of Word that I am using is 2002 with SP3.

Thanks ahead of time for any assistance.

Ron