Using index in a master document

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I have a master document that is linked with documents that are being
revised. I want my Master document to show an index that will automatically
update when the subdocuments have been added too or revised. I.E. If I add a
fresh document to the subdocument the master doc is linked to, how can I have
the index recongnise the new doc and thus include it automatically in the
index, naming it and all?

Note, my master document just looks at 3 different departments and updates
it's self when changes have been made to those departments documents, the
master document is NOT for editing.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TGVpZ2g=?=,

I have a master document that is linked with documents that are being
revised. I want my Master document to show an index that will automatically
update when the subdocuments have been added too or revised. I.E. If I add a
fresh document to the subdocument the master doc is linked to, how can I have
the index recongnise the new doc and thus include it automatically in the
index, naming it and all?

there's nothing in Word that will do this for you automatically. I can't think
of a macro solution that would, either, as there's no way to pick up what the
documents were like the last time (short of saving a set of duplicates and
running a comparison).

Most promising, I guess, would be to have Track Changes turned on in the
Sub-documents. If that shows through in the Master, a macro could check for
outstanding changes and if it finds any, have the Index update.

Trickier would be getting rid of (accepting) the changes, as this would be the
equivalent of editing the subdocuments while they're opened in the Master...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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