Thanks for the tips, Charles.

It appears that through some unintended keystrokes, I set up a master
document hierarchy. The 'm.doc' file gave it away. I was able to clean it up
pretty quickly.

-erich

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

I don't know how to get Word to act the way you describe.
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Erich Zimmerman" wrote in
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Here's what I did:

Created a new document. In the document, I added a text box with some text
in it. After saving the original, I did Save As... to save it under a new
name. I then changed some of the text and shading of the 'new' document.
However, when I reopened the original, the changes had also been applied
to
it.

I now have 4 documents that, when one is edited, the other 3 receive the
same edits.

Do I have to create new documents each time and copy everything over, or
is
there a way to turn this off?

-erich