Master Document Table of Contents

[Brian C]

I have created a Master Document with links to a number of
subdocuments.

The Table of Contents contains all the H1 headings from
that are in the Master Document but none of the heading
levels (H2, H3 and H4) from any of the subdocuments. What
am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the
limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these
newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a sure way to
destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are
not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said
that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and
those that will be corrupt soon. See <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm> for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. (This page also has a link to Steve
Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.

 

[Jonathan West]

In addition to the information from Charles, you may be interested in the
following article which describes a way of creating a consolidated Table of
Contents for multi-file documents, nt using Master Documents.

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