Master Documents

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"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 sure 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 <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm> for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. (This page also has a link to Steve
Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

Word Resources Page
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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G'day "Scott" <[email protected]>,

You cannot get Masters to save 'expanded'. Bringing in the sub dox is
a manual process. If you really wanted you could do something like
this in the template that the master uses:

Public Sub AutoOpen()
Dim Subby as SubDocument

With ActiveDocument
If .IsMasterDocument then
for each subby in .SubDocuments
Subby.Open
next
end if
end with
end sub

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Scott reckoned:
 
Word Heretic,
Where exactly do I put this code to get the master to automatically open all of the sub documents?
Thank you,
Scott
 
G'day "Scott" <[email protected]>,

Try ActiveDocument.Subdocuments.Expanded=True


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