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BAD idea. Word's Master document feature is a kludge.
There are other ways to create large books with Word.
The basic ideas are:
1. Keep each chapter in a separate file. If a chapter
has a lot of art or a lot of pages, consider breaking
it into two files (chap1a.doc & chap1b.doc).
2. Use fields to automate chapter numbering and
cross-references.
3. Use the HEADING 1-9 styles (helps with TOC).
4. Use RD fields to build the TOC and Index across
several files.
5. Use the same stylesheet (template) for all the files.
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