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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on
sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much |
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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
Since posting the below problem I have also noticed that "Insert/Pbject: Link
to File" only brings in the first page of the sub-document. Also, although numerous other posts seem to imply that Insert/Object should resolve to an INCLUDEFILE field under the covers, my altF9 shows that using Insert/Object is inserting a LINK field. "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote: This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much |
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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:17:00 -0700, RjS, CISSP, CISA
wrote: Since posting the below problem I have also noticed that "Insert/Pbject: Link to File" only brings in the first page of the sub-document. Also, although numerous other posts seem to imply that Insert/Object should resolve to an INCLUDEFILE field under the covers, my altF9 shows that using Insert/Object is inserting a LINK field. "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote: This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much Those "numerous other posts" are clearly wrong and should be disregarded. To get an INCLUDETEXT field (not INCLUDEFILE, as there is no such thing), use the Insert File command instead of Insert Object. Word can show at most one page of any object inserted _as an object_ regardless of its source, whether Word, Excel, PDF, or anything else. And the TOC field won't see anything inside an object. The INCLUDETEXT field has none of those drawbacks. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
Thanks much Jay I see and understand the limits of the Insert/Object however I want to be able to independently work on the component documents and then be able to update the master document. Am I expecting too much from WORD or is there a way to do this. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:17:00 -0700, RjS, CISSP, CISA wrote: Since posting the below problem I have also noticed that "Insert/Pbject: Link to File" only brings in the first page of the sub-document. Also, although numerous other posts seem to imply that Insert/Object should resolve to an INCLUDEFILE field under the covers, my altF9 shows that using Insert/Object is inserting a LINK field. "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote: This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much Those "numerous other posts" are clearly wrong and should be disregarded. To get an INCLUDETEXT field (not INCLUDEFILE, as there is no such thing), use the Insert File command instead of Insert Object. Word can show at most one page of any object inserted _as an object_ regardless of its source, whether Word, Excel, PDF, or anything else. And the TOC field won't see anything inside an object. The INCLUDETEXT field has none of those drawbacks. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
IncludeText will do this. See http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Thanks much Jay I see and understand the limits of the Insert/Object however I want to be able to independently work on the component documents and then be able to update the master document. Am I expecting too much from WORD or is there a way to do this. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:17:00 -0700, RjS, CISSP, CISA wrote: Since posting the below problem I have also noticed that "Insert/Pbject: Link to File" only brings in the first page of the sub-document. Also, although numerous other posts seem to imply that Insert/Object should resolve to an INCLUDEFILE field under the covers, my altF9 shows that using Insert/Object is inserting a LINK field. "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote: This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much Those "numerous other posts" are clearly wrong and should be disregarded. To get an INCLUDETEXT field (not INCLUDEFILE, as there is no such thing), use the Insert File command instead of Insert Object. Word can show at most one page of any object inserted _as an object_ regardless of its source, whether Word, Excel, PDF, or anything else. And the TOC field won't see anything inside an object. The INCLUDETEXT field has none of those drawbacks. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Insert/Object: Link to File - ToC doesnt work for me
Word has a "Master Documents" feature, but it's seriously broken and has
been for a long time (see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...csCorrupt.htm). The IncludeText fields are different from Master Documents and should work exactly as you described. After you've made changes in a component document, update the IncludeText fields in the overall document to get the changes. This updating is not automatic, but it's only two keystrokes (Ctrl+A, F9). An alternative is to keep the component documents separate, and to make other separate documents for just the table of contents and for the index. In the latter documents, insert RD fields (it stands for 'referenced document') that point to the component files. The TOC and Index fields will pull their information from the documents listed in the RD fields. The drawback here is that you have to manage the page numbering of the components manually. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. RjS, CISSP, CISA wrote: Thanks much Jay I see and understand the limits of the Insert/Object however I want to be able to independently work on the component documents and then be able to update the master document. Am I expecting too much from WORD or is there a way to do this. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:17:00 -0700, RjS, CISSP, CISA wrote: Since posting the below problem I have also noticed that "Insert/Pbject: Link to File" only brings in the first page of the sub-document. Also, although numerous other posts seem to imply that Insert/Object should resolve to an INCLUDEFILE field under the covers, my altF9 shows that using Insert/Object is inserting a LINK field. "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote: This feature seems like a perfect solution for what I need to do (work on sub-documents independent of the master document), and I am sure that if I do it right it will maintain my ToC, Page and paragraph numbering, and indexes correctly. Problem is: o- my ToC only contains entries from the master document. The subordinate documents Header-1, 2, & 3, do not show up. o- the page numbers from my subordinate documents are numbered 1-x, 2-x, etc, where the prefix number is the document or chapter number, but they are not being honored in the master document. Can someone please point me to a paper or something that sheds light on how to correctly deploy "Link to File"; using ToC and Page Numbering to their best advantage? BTW: I have spent well over an hour searching the help files but no matter what search topic I choose they only link topics like Mail Merge. It seems that Link to File is something that was overlooked for the Help topics. Just a suggestion. Thanks much Those "numerous other posts" are clearly wrong and should be disregarded. To get an INCLUDETEXT field (not INCLUDEFILE, as there is no such thing), use the Insert File command instead of Insert Object. Word can show at most one page of any object inserted _as an object_ regardless of its source, whether Word, Excel, PDF, or anything else. And the TOC field won't see anything inside an object. The INCLUDETEXT field has none of those drawbacks. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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