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IncludeText gives Error! Not a valid filename on 'refresh'
Using Word2003. Moderate amount of Word Experience but far from expert
..... I'm preparing a series of bifold, duplex booklets that share a lot of common pages. The full 'master' is 40 pages, and there are 8 page, 16 page, 20 page, 28 page variations that are a subset of the 40 page master. This seems like a good usage of IncludeText, and it "sort of" works for a while. Below is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Separate pages: Page01.doc thru Page40.doc IncluderOfEightPages.doc has: { INCLUDETEXT "Pg01.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg06.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg11.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg16.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg21.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg26.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg31.doc" } { INCLUDETEXT "Pg36.doc" } The problem is when I "refresh" the "master" with Ctrl-A and F9, I'm getting Error! Not a valid filename for some or all of the references. It seems to work at least once when I build up the subpages initially. Eventually, I start getting the Error! message as if it is corrupted. All the files are in the same directory. I've tried having the full pathname+full filename. Am I doing something wrong? Leaving out a step? Is there something with it being a Booket that confuses Word-2003? It is quite close to working, but frustrating. Something odd that will perhaps help diagnose. When I initially build the 'IncluderOfFourPages.doc with the initial { INCLUDETEST } fieldcodes, it seems to work fine, and the file size is perhaps 92,000 bytes. I will open IncluderOfEightPages.doc, it appears fine. Then I do Ctrl-A to select all, then F9 to "refresh". Then there are one, many, or all of the { INCLUDETEXT } fields give the message: Error! Not a valid filename. The filesize has shrunk to about 52,000 bytes ... like it has lost the text that was included. I'm baffled. I've heard of file corruption with MasterDocument + SubDocument, but not this problem. A year or so ago, I was working on a similar project, and it seems like there was a "magic step" involved to get the "refresh" to work ok .... but I can't remember what it was. I would encounter the above "Error! Not a valid filename" and it seemed there was something I could do to fix it so the "refresh" would work ok. Can't recall what it was. ??? |
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