Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents,
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
Jan said:
I created an main document and inserted many subdocuments.
View>Outline>Show Document>Insert
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Now I have problem if I open the file (main doc) and want to open the
subdocuments, than is problem with subdocuments.
The hyperlinks are still the same - absolute and the subdocuments could be
not opened.
Exist any possibility how to prepare subdocuments with relative path?