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Organizing a book
I'm working on a book, and though I'm working on only my second chapter, I've
already discovered that trying to print the part of the document that corresponds to a single chapter is more trouble than I want to go through. One problem is that when I click on the printer icon on the toolbar, Word prints the entire document instead of bringing up the print dialog (can this be changed, BTW?). A bigger problem is that I have to specify a page range to get only a single chapter printed. That requires that I know the first and last page numbers for each chapter, which is a bother. FrameMaker, which is the document processing software I'm used to, has book files, which allow you to put different chapters in separate files and work with them individually or collectively. Word has Master Documents, but other Word users I know have warned me in the strongest terms not to use Master documents. I don't know why. I welcome suggestions on the best way to organize the chapters in a book such that I can treat the chapters individually but can also manipulate the book as a single entity (e.g., for printing purposes, for doing search/replace, etc.). I'm using Word 2002. Thanks, Scott |
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Organizing a book
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ontMatter.htm; if you
insert section breaks between chapters, then not only can you have a different header/footer on the first page of each chapter (where you don't want your running heads), but you can also print a specific section. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... I'm working on a book, and though I'm working on only my second chapter, I've already discovered that trying to print the part of the document that corresponds to a single chapter is more trouble than I want to go through. One problem is that when I click on the printer icon on the toolbar, Word prints the entire document instead of bringing up the print dialog (can this be changed, BTW?). A bigger problem is that I have to specify a page range to get only a single chapter printed. That requires that I know the first and last page numbers for each chapter, which is a bother. FrameMaker, which is the document processing software I'm used to, has book files, which allow you to put different chapters in separate files and work with them individually or collectively. Word has Master Documents, but other Word users I know have warned me in the strongest terms not to use Master documents. I don't know why. I welcome suggestions on the best way to organize the chapters in a book such that I can treat the chapters individually but can also manipulate the book as a single entity (e.g., for printing purposes, for doing search/replace, etc.). I'm using Word 2002. Thanks, Scott |
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Organizing a book
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ontMatter.htm; if you insert section breaks between chapters, then not only can you have a different header/footer on the first page of each chapter (where you don't want your running heads), but you can also print a specific section. So is your suggestion that I should make each chapter of the book a different section? Will this change the behavior of the print button on the toolbar, or will it continue to print the entire document? Thanks, Scott |
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Organizing a book
If you make each chapter a separate section, then you can print sections
separately (by putting s1, s2, or whatever in the Pages box). For more, see the "Print specific pages and sections" section of the "Print a document" Help topic. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ontMatter.htm; if you insert section breaks between chapters, then not only can you have a different header/footer on the first page of each chapter (where you don't want your running heads), but you can also print a specific section. So is your suggestion that I should make each chapter of the book a different section? Will this change the behavior of the print button on the toolbar, or will it continue to print the entire document? Thanks, Scott |
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