(reposted from ..word.vba.general)

I've read that the built in Master Document functionality is extremely
buggy and prone to data corruption and lost pointers. The suggested
workaround is to build a master document using RD fields and
INCLUDETEXT fields.

I was wondering if updates to the subordinate documents are suseptible
to the same data corruptions since some updates like cross refferences
to external (to the sub doc) chapters must be done in the "master" doc.



I have bookmarks/cross-refs that point to other chapters that would be
undefined in the local source doc.

I'm looking how to maintain bookmarks and cross-refs in an
RD-INCLUDETEXT structure.

On a similar note, is there a way to copy bookmarks from a source doc
to a target doc in VBA? I tried a couple of things but the bookmarks
in source docs seem to get lost if the link to them is broken. How do
I preserve those bookmarks?