When creating a new "clean" template what is the best option for the page
layout Section Start? I am attempting to recreate (as a single long
document) a software user manual from a Word (2003) master document.

Thanks,

I would ALWAYS use New Page. Some may disagree with me, but I find the
others nothing but trouble. There's just some things I'd rather do
manually...one main reason being because many others don't understand or use
certain features and won't know that you did. (I see the word "master".
Please stay away from master/subs! Just make sure you use compressed
graphics, and you should be fine.)
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"jet47" wrote in message
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When creating a new "clean" template what is the best option for the page
layout Section Start? I am attempting to recreate (as a single long
document) a software user manual from a Word (2003) master document.

Thanks,

Thanks. I have read John McGhie's article on "recovering" master documents.
Wish I'd read it BEFORE I wrote this 26 chapter manual using Master/subs. So,
now I'm redoing the whole thing.
Jet47

"Anne Troy" wrote:

I would ALWAYS use New Page. Some may disagree with me, but I find the
others nothing but trouble. There's just some things I'd rather do
manually...one main reason being because many others don't understand or use
certain features and won't know that you did. (I see the word "master".
Please stay away from master/subs! Just make sure you use compressed
graphics, and you should be fine.)
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"jet47" wrote in message
...
When creating a new "clean" template what is the best option for the page
layout Section Start? I am attempting to recreate (as a single long
document) a software user manual from a Word (2003) master document.

Thanks,

I'd agree with Anne on avoiding continuous section breaks, just because they
confuse me--and not infrequently confuse Word as well.

Other useful links for long documents:

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html

Potential Workarounds:

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

See the ³Number Pages Across Files² section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature‹for an introduction to them, see he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm

Collection of other links on controlling/managing long documents:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm


On 9/28/05 9:30 PM, "jet47" wrote:

Thanks. I have read John McGhie's article on "recovering" master documents.
Wish I'd read it BEFORE I wrote this 26 chapter manual using Master/subs. So,
now I'm redoing the whole thing.
Jet47

"Anne Troy" wrote:

I would ALWAYS use New Page. Some may disagree with me, but I find the
others nothing but trouble. There's just some things I'd rather do
manually...one main reason being because many others don't understand or use
certain features and won't know that you did. (I see the word "master".
Please stay away from master/subs! Just make sure you use compressed
graphics, and you should be fine.)
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"jet47" wrote in message
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When creating a new "clean" template what is the best option for the page
layout Section Start? I am attempting to recreate (as a single long
document) a software user manual from a Word (2003) master document.

Thanks,





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"jet47" wrote:

When creating a new "clean" template what is the best option for the page
layout Section Start? I am attempting to recreate (as a single long
document) a software user manual from a Word (2003) master document.

Thanks,