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The article is from the Office Watch site, which is run by Woody
Leonhard, though he has a number of people writing for it these days.
The site is known for straight-shooting no-holds-barred reporting on
MS Office-related issues. I would not expect them to publish something
without high confidence that it is correct.
A key point of the article is that master documents have been
reimplemented in Word 2007+ (probably in connection with the move to
.docx format). John McGhie's article says that it is for Word 97 and
above, but it doesn't look like it has been updated for more recent
versions.
All that said, I haven't tried master documents in Word 2007, but I
forwarded the article to my husband, who seems determined to write his
dissertation in Word.
--Janet
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> The article is unsigned -- are you the author? I ask because of John
> McGhie's famous article, "Why Master Documents Corrupt," which this one
> seems to contradict. Also, the Word-PC list has only a few members who
> use Master Documents, while the rest avoid them like the plague.
>
> -- Dan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Hanson
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:16 PM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Master Documents & Word 2007
>>
>> I remember someone asking about Word 2007 and Master
>> documents recently. Thought this would be useful to someone:
>> http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1396&zoneid=12
>>
>
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