how do i keep subdocuments from overlapping pages?

[Guest]

When i print a master document, most of the subdocuments (chapters) run
together. There does not appear to be any difference in formatting between
the ones that start printing on a separate page and those documents that
begin printing on the last page of the previous subdocument.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Guest]

Thank you for the response. I had actually found and read the documents from
Steve Hudson over the weekend and had come to the conclusion that I should
create one document and "very carefully" cut and paste the text from all the
subdocuments into the one new document and forget about using the master
document "feature". It's a good idea, too bad it doesn't really work.

Thanks again for the "answer" (grin).

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Re the combined long file--there's a collection of links that are useful for
long documents here:

http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

You can probably ignore much of the text, but some of the linked articles
may be useful.