Organizing a book

[Scott Meyers]

I'm working on a book, and though I'm working on only my second chapter, I've
already discovered that trying to print the part of the document that
corresponds to a single chapter is more trouble than I want to go through. One
problem is that when I click on the printer icon on the toolbar, Word prints the
entire document instead of bringing up the print dialog (can this be changed,
BTW?). A bigger problem is that I have to specify a page range to get only a
single chapter printed. That requires that I know the first and last page
numbers for each chapter, which is a bother.

FrameMaker, which is the document processing software I'm used to, has book
files, which allow you to put different chapters in separate files and work with
them individually or collectively. Word has Master Documents, but other Word
users I know have warned me in the strongest terms not to use Master documents.
I don't know why.

I welcome suggestions on the best way to organize the chapters in a book such
that I can treat the chapters individually but can also manipulate the book as a
single entity (e.g., for printing purposes, for doing search/replace, etc.).

I'm using Word 2002.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NumberingFrontMatter.htm; if you
insert section breaks between chapters, then not only can you have a
different header/footer on the first page of each chapter (where you don't
want your running heads), but you can also print a specific section.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Scott Meyers]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NumberingFrontMatter.htm; if you
insert section breaks between chapters, then not only can you have a
different header/footer on the first page of each chapter (where you don't
want your running heads), but you can also print a specific section.

So is your suggestion that I should make each chapter of the book a different
section? Will this change the behavior of the print button on the toolbar, or
will it continue to print the entire document?

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you make each chapter a separate section, then you can print sections
separately (by putting s1, s2, or whatever in the Pages box). For more, see
the "Print specific pages and sections" section of the "Print a document"
Help topic.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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