I have a master document with about 10 subdocument. When I wanted to print
it out, I couldn't figure out how to have the page numbeing run consecutively
starting from the first page of chapter 1 thru the final page of the
document. The on-disk help was useless. This shouldn't be so difficult. Can
anyone explain how this is done? Thanks.

Word Heretic might come along and help you out, but 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

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely
(this might contain the answer to your question):
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

On 11/16/05 11:29 AM, "Robert McN" wrote:

I have a master document with about 10 subdocument. When I wanted to print
it out, I couldn't figure out how to have the page numbeing run consecutively
starting from the first page of chapter 1 thru the final page of the
document. The on-disk help was useless. This shouldn't be so difficult. Can
anyone explain how this is done? Thanks.

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