Problems with subdocuments

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Hi everybody,

I have a master document with several subdocuments. But I find the
following problems:

-Sometimes I cannot insert a subdocument unless I put it within
another subdocument (I cannot place the insertion point otherwise). Is
there any way to avoid this?

-Sometimes, when I try to put closer two subdocuments (by removing
blank lines between them), Word automatically merges then. Can I avoid
this behavior?

-In general, I don't understand how to control the structure of
subdocuments, how can I avoid subdocuments nested within other
documents (does this make sense? why is it useful?), etc.

-Finally, I would like to know if it's possible to save the whole
document as a word document without subdocuments, that is, replacing
the subdocuments by their current content forever.

Thanks in advance,

Sergio

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents
or subdocuments, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/wordhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

See the “Number Pages Across Files†section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature—for an introduction to them, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big
files here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm