RE: Help on Basic Word Operation (Or Not Basic Word Operation, but I don't want to argue the point)

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

>
> Word "pretends" that all the other documents are ACTUALLY WITHIN the blank
> TOC document when you insert RD fields. So creating a TOC in that document
> with the RD fields is Word pretending you were making a TOC from
> one single
> document.
>
> Microsoft ought to think about using something like my summary as
> an initial
> explanation. It would help orient people like me who aren't
> totally clueless
> about fields, but need to situate what they know into a meaningful context
> with regard to RD fields.

I doubt that Microsoft will be interested. They regard RD fields as an
obsolescent technology and keep pushing Master Documents, despite the fact
that RD fields work and to a considerable extent Master Docs don't.

Regards
Jonathan West


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