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Late last week, I asked about how to safely extract a document
collection from the evil that is Word's "master document" feature. I
got a range of replies. A detailed answer from an authoritative source
can be found at the Word MVPs site:
How to recover a Master Document
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm).
(For some reason, the content of that page doesn't appear in Apple's
Safari browser, but pops up just fine in Internet Explorer. Must be
that "if software = apple then implement rnd (bug routine)" feature in
Microsoft's implementation of the HTML language. <g>)
Thanks to Hilary Powers, MaggiRos, Jean Hollis Weber, Jonathan West,
and anyone else I missed. (If I didn't reply personally, please send me
a copy of your note off-list; evidently, it never arrived.)
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