How can I email a Word 2003 Master Document?

[Kou]

Dear General Questions Community Members,

Hello! I have two questions I'd like help with, please.

QUESTION 1:
I am using Word 2002 SP2 and I would like to know how to
email a Master Document. Please?

It seems the links in the document are all absolute
paths? So if I email this, then they will break, as the
person receiving the email doesn't have access to my C
drive (I hope!).

I've looked, but haven't seen a way to make Word save the
subdocuments with a relative path? (That way I can
just .rar the entire folder and send it off) Am I going
about this in the wrong way?

QUESTION 2:
Do master documents still get corrupted?
I read here -

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.ht

m that master documents get corrupted. Is this
information valid for Word 2002 SP2? Has it been resolved
in Word 2003?

Thank you!
Kou.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Kou,

1. If your Master Document and its sub-documents are in the same
folder when zipped, and if the recipient unzips them all to a single
folder, then the Master will 'find' its sub-documents when it is
opened.

2. Any kind of Document can become corrupt, and I have had a
few - however, by good fortune, I have NEVER had a corrupt
Master Document in almost 15 years of using Word!!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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[Graham Mayor]

Nothing has been changed in Word 2003 to make the Master Document utility
more reliable. It is still a tool to be used with caution for reasons listed
in the link posted earlier in the thread.

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[Kou]

Thank you both for your answers!

A Very Grateful,
Kou

 

[Pat Garard]

Kou! You are most welcome!
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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