Master Document Questoin

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Yes, I know they are evil. And yes, I know they lend themselves to
corruption. But I really don't have a choice.

I've got the wonderfully instructive document from Steve Hudson on how to do
MDs the right way - but I can't find an answer to one question and my testing
is not giving me the results I want.

Can you have different headers and footers for even and odd numbered pages
in the Master Document? And if the answer is yes, if you could point me in
the right direction to find the how-tos I would be very grateful!

Lauri S.
 
Hi Lauri
Yes, I know they are evil. And yes, I know they lend themselves to
corruption. But I really don't have a choice.
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Why not? What kind of project are you undertaking?

I've got the wonderfully instructive document from Steve Hudson on how to do
MDs the right way - but I can't find an answer to one question and my testing
is not giving me the results I want.

Can you have different headers and footers for even and odd numbered pages
in the Master Document? And if the answer is yes, if you could point me in
the right direction to find the how-tos I would be very grateful!
Click to expand...

Do you know how to create different headers and footers for even/odd
pages in a normal document? File | Page Setup (in Word "pre 2007") is
your friend. You want to do that in the MD (or it's template, which
hopefully equals the template for the subs) *before* inserting the subs ...

HTH
Robert
 
Yes, I know they are evil. And yes, I know they lend themselves to
Why not? What kind of project are you undertaking?
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I'm putting together a training / policy manual for another department.
I've written the training manual part but the policy section is made up of
50+ different documents the department has saved. They do not want to
combine all the docs into one since they are also used standalone. So I have
to do the MD approach.
Do you know how to create different headers and footers for even/odd
pages in a normal document? File | Page Setup (in Word "pre 2007") is
your friend. You want to do that in the MD (or it's template, which
hopefully equals the template for the subs) *before* inserting the subs ...
Click to expand...

Could swear I tried that and it didn't work (but I may be wrong).

I'll do another test to be sure.

Thanks for the help!!

Lauri S.
 
LauriS said:
I'm putting together a training / policy manual for another department.
I've written the training manual part but the policy section is made up of
50+ different documents the department has saved. They do not want to
combine all the docs into one since they are also used standalone. So I have
to do the MD approach.
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[Good thing I asked ... :-)]

Are you absolutely positive that all the 50+ different documents have
been created based on the same template? If not, I would not want to
touch your Master Document with gloves!

Seriously: if you pursue the MD approach: make sure you work with copies
of the original files only. I don't see why you must use MD approach, as
INCLUDETEXT might serve the very same goal here -- and avoid a couple of
obstacles on the way. Though, if your 50+ documents are anything like a
usual selection of documents from a company fileserver, chances are your
result will look very bad *at best* are solid.

Good luck!
Robert
 
Robert,

Thanks for that info. I was going to go through and totally reformat all
the individual documents to have the exact same style but the IncludeText
might just be the ticket!

Lauri S.
 
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