splitting up a long report into chapters

[owen howlett]

We're responsible for formatting a long report in which
each chapter is written by a different company. We
periodically collect the chapters together and format
them to produce an interim draft, then split the draft
back up into individual chapters so the authors can work
on them.

The trouble is that when the chapters get returned to the
authors and they update their fields, all the section
numbers revert to "1.x.x" (instead of, for instance in
chapter 5, 5.x.x). This is an inconvenience rather than
a real problem, but is there a way around it?

Owen

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Owen,

We're responsible for formatting a long report in which
each chapter is written by a different company. We
periodically collect the chapters together and format
them to produce an interim draft, then split the draft
back up into individual chapters so the authors can work
on them.

The trouble is that when the chapters get returned to the
authors and they update their fields, all the section
numbers revert to "1.x.x" (instead of, for instance in
chapter 5, 5.x.x). This is an inconvenience rather than
a real problem, but is there a way around it?

The only way around it would be to go into the
Style/Numbering that's controlling this and set the Start to
the chapter number in each individual file.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Owen,

Or put a hidden "Heading 1" paragraph at the top of the chapter/file, with
a { listnum \L1 \s4 } field.
That'll make the next "Heading 1" continue with "5", and you can delete the
hidden paragraphs later after you rejoin the files.

Regards,
Klaus