Re: Templates and master documents

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

2008/7/2 Holly Steele <hsteele1 -at- gmail -dot- com>:
> Hello all
>
> I have an interesting Word issue.
>
> I am working with a master document

My advice is - don't! As John McGhie (Word MVP) once wrote "A master
document has only two possible states: Corrupt, or just about to be
corrupt."

Take a look at these articles to see why.

Why Master Documents corrupt
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

Instead, leave your subdocuments as standalone documents and create a
consolidated ToC using the technique described in this article

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

Regards
Jonathan West
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