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Guest

I work on long documents that can be broken down into sections by topic. I
have come up with my own style and wonder if a master document would be
better. Can you give me more info about master and subs.
My system is a template has been created for each section of the paper. I
open and close them individually to edit and write. After all work, I create
a new document called "whole report," for example. One by one I insert the
other files into the "whole report." Then I spend some time on page numbers,
footers and headers which always seem to need revising. Is there a better
way?
 
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Dayo Mitchell

Indeed, safest. If you want to know why, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

Although I do something similar, and often find that my headers/footers,
also need revising, theoretically inserting the files into a pre-formatted
template with the headers/footers already set up, should work. This page
may have relevant info:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

I'm not sure how you are using the term template--presumably you are basing
each section on the *same* customized template that has been formatted as
you want the report to look? If not, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm
 

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