master documents

[David W.]

OK. I've read all about not using master documents. So what do we do?

We need links to "constant" pages (sub documents) that are referenced by many other documents. For example: a "General Terms & Conditions" page which contains all of our legal disclaimers needs to be included in product manuals for all products that we sell. We want this info in one linked location so that any change here will automatically feed through to all manuals. Also, we have multiple users needing access to these files - to create new manuals & edit existing ones, but these pages are locked because they are sub documents.

We have had all the problems detailed here - page numbering, TOC, changing styles, locked documents, etc. Using Word 2002 for XP Pro.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You could use either an IncludeText field or an AutoText field. You would
want an AutoOpen macro in your document templates to select all and update
fields.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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OK. I've read all about not using master documents. So what do we do?

We need links to "constant" pages (sub documents) that are referenced by

many other documents. For example: a "General Terms & Conditions" page which
contains all of our legal disclaimers needs to be included in product
manuals for all products that we sell. We want this info in one linked
location so that any change here will automatically feed through to all
manuals. Also, we have multiple users needing access to these files - to
create new manuals & edit existing ones, but these pages are locked because
they are sub documents.

We have had all the problems detailed here - page numbering, TOC, changing

styles, locked documents, etc. Using Word 2002 for XP Pro.