Master Document

[Susan F]

I'm writing a book with multiple chapters. I want to create tables of
authorities and an index without having to combine the chapters into a single
file. I find a master document section on the outlining tab but there is
nothing in help to explain how it works in Word 2007. What's the easiest way
to what I want?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Avoid Master Documents. See "Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple
Documents" at
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148 for the
general principles of using the RD field, which can also (I believe) be used
for the index and TOA.

 

[grammatim]

Is this the sort of thing that Publisher is supposed to be able to do?

The relevant sections of the How To Use Office books seem to indicate
that Publisher is mostly for making brochures and maybe webpages. Is
there anything in Office (comparable to FrameMaker) that's _intended_
for assembling books out of individual chapters?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Publisher is not suitable for books that need to have TOCs, indexes,
footnotes, or other such refinements. Publisher can about handle running
heads and automatic page numbers, and I believe it now has section breaks
that allow you to restart numbering, and it does many other things very
well, but for a complex book, no, it's not your best choice. In fact, I
wouldn't advise it for any document with more than a dozen or so pages
(though I do have some larger ones) because it's not that easy to navigate
from one page to another. Not to mention that it's not designed for
continuous text flow.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Is this the sort of thing that Publisher is supposed to be able to do?

The relevant sections of the How To Use Office books seem to indicate
that Publisher is mostly for making brochures and maybe webpages. Is
there anything in Office (comparable to FrameMaker) that's _intended_
for assembling books out of individual chapters?