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Advice about Master documents
Hi (using Word 2002 in XP).
I am writing a book that has many chapters. It is a complex book, so I'm writing a little in one chapter and a little in another at various times, adding ideas as they come along. At present each chapter is in a separate file, but that has created a great many separate files and I am looking for a way to coordinate them. I therefore thought of the Master document as a tool to do this. I used to use the Master document when I was writing in WordPerfect 5.1 and it worked very well for me. But I heard that master documents have problems and a great risk of corruption in Word. Is that true? What kind of problems occur with Master documents. Can they be avoided? Any suggestions as to how to maintain a "big picture" of all the chapters in this manuscript? I could of course put them all in one huge file with the heading chapters creating a master list in the TOC - and I'm considering doing that - but the idea of putting all the eggs in one basket that might get corrupted somehow bothers me. Am I wrong to worry about that? This manuscript has a lot of illustrations (if that makes a difference in the responses) and I use frames to position them within the document. Thanks for any suggestions and ideas. -- Jeff Stevens Email address deliberately false to avoid spam |
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