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Master Document Won't Close, Won't Make Subdocuments
I'm using Word 2003 on XP and have a long document I'm tying to chop up
into several subdocuments. When I do this, the master document appears to mark the sections I choose as subdocuments OK, but does not write out the subdocument files. When I try to close the master document, I get a dialogue asking me if I want to save my changes. If I choose "yes" it appears to save, but still does not produce the subdocuments. If I then try to close the document again it asks me if I want to save. The only way I can close the document is to give up and cancel. What's the problem? Why can't I create the subdocuments? Thanks for any help. Jonathan |
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Don't do this! leave it as a single document. The Master document function
is notoriously bug ridden and sooner or later it will corrupt your documents. Word can handle documents of hundreds, even thousands, of pages. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jonathan wrote: I'm using Word 2003 on XP and have a long document I'm tying to chop up into several subdocuments. When I do this, the master document appears to mark the sections I choose as subdocuments OK, but does not write out the subdocument files. When I try to close the master document, I get a dialogue asking me if I want to save my changes. If I choose "yes" it appears to save, but still does not produce the subdocuments. If I then try to close the document again it asks me if I want to save. The only way I can close the document is to give up and cancel. What's the problem? Why can't I create the subdocuments? Thanks for any help. Jonathan |
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Graham Mayor wrote:
Don't do this! leave it as a single document. The Master document function is notoriously bug ridden and sooner or later it will corrupt your documents. Word can handle documents of hundreds, even thousands, of pages. Oh OK, thanks for the warning! The trouble is that I need to split the document up so that several people can work on it (it's already about 900 pages long). Would I be able to use the INCLUDETEXT field for this? |
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Master Document Won't Close, Won't Make Subdocuments
Jonathan wrote:
Graham Mayor wrote: Don't do this! leave it as a single document. The Master document function is notoriously bug ridden and sooner or later it will corrupt your documents. Word can handle documents of hundreds, even thousands, of pages. Oh OK, thanks for the warning! The trouble is that I need to split the document up so that several people can work on it (it's already about 900 pages long). Would I be able to use the INCLUDETEXT field for this? That would be a better plan For want of a better word the new 'master document' would have to be updated to reflect the changes in the other documents, but it should be a more reliable document. I would also ensure that you make regular backups -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Master Document Won't Close, Won't Make Subdocuments
Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt soon. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the Master Document feature and workarounds. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm for more information on what goes wrong, and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm for ideas on how to salvage what you can. See http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...masterdocs.doc for Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very carefully. Word handles very long documents quite well so long as they are formatted using styles, don't contain manual page breaks and other unnecessary direct formatting. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jonathan" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 on XP and have a long document I'm tying to chop up into several subdocuments. When I do this, the master document appears to mark the sections I choose as subdocuments OK, but does not write out the subdocument files. When I try to close the master document, I get a dialogue asking me if I want to save my changes. If I choose "yes" it appears to save, but still does not produce the subdocuments. If I then try to close the document again it asks me if I want to save. The only way I can close the document is to give up and cancel. What's the problem? Why can't I create the subdocuments? Thanks for any help. Jonathan |
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