[ccampbell614]

Word is supposed to lock subdocuments when they are collapsed in a master
document in outline view. Mine don't lock and I can't figure out why.

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry! Most of the people posting here don¹t know much about master
documents, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm

You might find help in this article:
Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

See the ³Number Pages Across Files² section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature‹for an introduction to them, see he
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files
he
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
(still somewhat in progress)

On 9/29/06 7:21 AM, "ccampbell614" wrote:

Word is supposed to lock subdocuments when they are collapsed in a master
document in outline view. Mine don't lock and I can't figure out why.

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Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
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MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
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[ccampbell614]

I figured it out. I was just clicking the 'collapse' button when I should
have been clicking the 'collapse subdocuments' button. Sorry about that.

"ccampbell614" wrote:

Word is supposed to lock subdocuments when they are collapsed in a master
document in outline view. Mine don't lock and I can't figure out why.