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Re: Big Word Docs?

Subject: Re: Big Word Docs?
From: Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:43:08 +1000


As others have noted, Word's Master Documents feature can be a problem. Steve Hudson (no longer on this list) has a technique for keeping Master Docs under control, but IMHO ordinary mortals should use a technique involving RD fields, SEQ fields, and methods for cross-referencing between Word files (if necessary).

I discuss these techniques in my Taming Microsoft Word books (see sig). The bit about cross-refs between files is on the Web:
http://www.jeanweber.com/news/tenews46.htm#xref

Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
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At 06:12 PM 3/04/2002 -0500, Trese, Timothy G. wrote:

A colleague has inherited a 300+-page MS Word document. Unfortunately,
she doesn't have the option of working in Frame, but she'd like to break
the document up into smaller, more manageable component files that she
could then build into the MS Word equivalent of a FrameMaker book file.
Neither of us is sure what features are available to do this in Word,
let alone how to use them. Can anyone please tell us what Word feature
we're looking for here, and better still, refer us to a web site that
would give us some tips on how to use it?

TIA,
Tim



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