How to create a Master Document without changing existing formats.

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I am creating a twelve chapter document that has a separate document for each
of the chapters (as well as the forward). Although these documents are
formated the same, each time I bring them into the Master Document, the
format changes. Is there a way I can preserve the existing format? The
section breaks are really only to create continuous page numbers, but I also
would like to have a separate footer for each chapter. Any wuggestions??

 

[Guest]

Master documents tend to corrupt, so you may not want to use them; see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm.

An alternative is to use INCLUDETEXT fields. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/includetextfieldscontent.htm.
Information on how you preserve section formatting (including headers and
footers), is given in the article at
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.

Note, however, that Word can handle fairly large documents as single files.
Therefore, keeping all data in one document might be preferable. Depending on
what should change in headers (footers) between sections, you may not even
need section breaks. The STYLEREF field provides a way to reference text from
the body of the document. See the first section of the article at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm for a basic description of
the STYLEREF field.