Checking several docs

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Hi;
I’m writing a story in short chapters, (Word 2000), each chapter as a
separate document. Is there a procedure I can conveniently use to check all
documents simultaneously relating to this story, e.g. duplicate phrases and
topics etc, or should I be creating all chapters into one document; this
being a logical option I suppose. I am presenting the chapters to a local
monthly magazine and the current method I’m using suits me best.
Kind Regards

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello G

I’m writing a story in short chapters, (Word 2000), each chapter as a
separate document. Is there a procedure I can conveniently use to check all
documents simultaneously relating to this story, e.g. duplicate phrases and
topics etc, or should I be creating all chapters into one document; this
being a logical option I suppose. I am presenting the chapters to a local
monthly magazine and the current method I’m using suits me best.

I'm not entirely sure what it is you need to check (and how you would do
it in one large document).

But what you could do is keep on writing in single documents. And create
a big document which is comprised entirely of INCLUDETEXT fields
pointing to the individual files. Works surely best if all documents
(the big one and all short ones) reside in the very same folder on your
hard disk), and maybe even if the file names of the short files are all
somehow similar (story0001.doc, story0002.doc, or something similar).
Then, whatever it is you need to do to compare to the whole suit of
stories, you can do it in there.

If you need to change something in an individual story, you can even do
that in this big document and, once you're finished, "play back" the
change through the INCLUDETEXT field to the individual file.

HTH
Robert