On Jan 29, 10:42*pm, "D O'Heare" wrote:
"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message

...

One thing I wanted to do but never could make work was master
documents and subdocuments, which would have been nice,

I've seen other people try to use it and wind up with a mess. Whether this
was their fault, of Word's fault (I suspect the latter), I don't know.

It's possible to make it work, but it's a royal pain. Fussy, fussy, fussy..


If you have ever googled word+subdocs, the one comment that you will
see over and over is:
"Word master documents exist in 2 states : either corrupt, or about to
become corrupt."

Here at work, I have seen some success in emulating master documents
by using document properties in the "master" document to specify a
subdirectory where the subdocs live, then using the INCLUDETEXT
directive in an inserted Field to include the subdocument. You do all
your editing in the subdoc, then you go to the master doc, Select All,
and Update Fields. Seems to work pretty well.

Jerry