Hi,

I have a client that wants to use the master document feature. They
have a legal document that they want to convert to subdocs and use
these subdocs in more than one file. They also want to use this
master doc as a form to enter text and dropdown's with if statements
throughout the document. This then will be saved as a template so they
can reuse this master to create new legal documents from it.

The document itself is only about 22 pages in length. The reason they
want this Master document is that they want to be able to update a
subsection/subdocument once and have it updated in all the master
documents that this subdoc in inserted.

Is this going to be possible?

Thanks

Steve

The master document feature is notorious for corrupting documents, however
there is no reason why you cannot have a main document and separate
documents for variable insertions - use the includetext field function to
include the variable documents - as for drop down selection, see
http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm for a few ideas.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Steve wrote:
Hi,

I have a client that wants to use the master document feature. They
have a legal document that they want to convert to subdocs and use
these subdocs in more than one file. They also want to use this
master doc as a form to enter text and dropdown's with if statements
throughout the document. This then will be saved as a template so they
can reuse this master to create new legal documents from it.

The document itself is only about 22 pages in length. The reason they
want this Master document is that they want to be able to update a
subsection/subdocument once and have it updated in all the master
documents that this subdoc in inserted.

Is this going to be possible?

Thanks

Steve