Re: Word's "Master Document" feature

["Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

It never ceases to amaze me how so many people are dedicated to persuading 
me that the tool I'm using can't do what I've been doing with it for over a 
dozen years now.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: Word's "Master Document" feature

> At 3:47 PM -0400 5/31/07, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>>Actually, Word handles large books just fine. There's a wealth of
>>material about this on TECHWR-L, Word-PC, the Word MVP site, etc. It's
>>just that Master Document isn't the right way to do it.
>>
>>Most of the posts that begin, "Word can't do this!" are answered by
>>posts that begin, "Here's how to do this in Word..."
>
> Yes, there are ways to do it.
>
> Usually with the caveat, "use smaller files," "you have to program
> that yourself," or my personal favorite "You can do that, you just
> have to work around the way the program is made."
>
> Which tells me, I don't know about you, that Word isn't made to do
> create large, complex, documents.
>
> Scott 

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