WHAT TYPE OF DOCUMENT TO USE

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I am redoing a policy manual; however, this manual will be huge and will need
to be available via tablets for quick access by firefighters. So they will
need to be able to review the table of contents quickly and go straight to
the page they need.

My new boss says (though he doesn't know anything about it) that there is a
way in MSWord to develop something similar to the worksheets in Excel. I'm
wondering if anyone knows what he is talking about.

I've got a master document and subdocuments started but I don't like they
way it is portrayed in the document with the links. It seems hard to read.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Use .pdf files. You can make it uneditable, searchable, put in bookmarks,
and the file size will probably be smaller that the Word doc.

(I did that with a policy manual for a group of doctor's offices.)

 

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I am redoing a policy manual; however, this manual will be huge and
will need to be available via tablets for quick access by
firefighters. So they will need to be able to review the table of
contents quickly and go straight to the page they need.

My new boss says (though he doesn't know anything about it) that
there is a way in MSWord to develop something similar to the
worksheets in Excel. I'm wondering if anyone knows what he is
talking about.

I've got a master document and subdocuments started but I don't like
they way it is portrayed in the document with the links. It seems
hard to read. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

He may have been referring to Outline View. Each Header 1, 2, 3, etc.
becomes an outline presentation or one or all can be expanded, etc.. You
can then view one, a couple, several or all Outline Levels on a screen.
Sort of like a TOC but with the data right there in the toc, ready to be
rolled down, a la Exploerer's windows.

CAUTION: Master Document never has and apparently never will, work
correctly in Word. It WILL unexpectedly begin to trash and otherwise
corrupt itself and the files it uses, usually without your knowledge until
after it's too late, expecially with a large document. It's a well known
problem with Word. Please avoid use of it in any way other than temporarily
assembling a bunch of copies of original files to get page numbering to work
right over several files.
If you need proof, ask; I can provide it, but cannot locate it at the
moment. Perhaps someone else can.

HTH
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