Why won't my subdocuments lock when collapsed in outline view?

[ccampbell614]

Word is supposed to lock subdocuments when they are collapsed in a master
document in outline view. Mine don't lock and I can't figure out why.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry! Most of the people posting here don¹t know much about master
documents, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

You might find help in this article:
Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/wordhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

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

See the ³Number Pages Across Files² section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature‹for an introduction to them, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files
here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
(still somewhat in progress)

 

[ccampbell614]

I figured it out. I was just clicking the 'collapse' button when I should
have been clicking the 'collapse subdocuments' button. Sorry about that.