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Styles in Master doc with Sub docs
I have designed headings with outlining that work fine when I apply the
styles in the Master Doc to the sub docs. However, after saving all docs and reopeining the master doc & expanding sub docs, several of the headings are no longer there. I have to reapply the style |
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Styles in Master doc with Sub docs
Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents,
and thus may not have any help to offer, because: Why Master Documents corrupt: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm How to recover a Master Document: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html You might also check these links for potential workarounds: Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148 See the “Number Pages Across Files” section at this link: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document feature—for an introduction to them, see he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files he http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm tebdom wrote: I have designed headings with outlining that work fine when I apply the styles in the Master Doc to the sub docs. However, after saving all docs and reopeining the master doc & expanding sub docs, several of the headings are no longer there. I have to reapply the style |
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Styles in Master doc with Sub docs
Thank you for the information. I figured out the problem but these links
will be useful in the future. Unfortunately I cannot combine the chapters into one doc - there are too many graphics and word dogs when editing. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents, and thus may not have any help to offer, because: Why Master Documents corrupt: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ocsCorrupt.htm How to recover a Master Document: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...MasterDocs.htm Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/ma...dhomepage.html You might also check these links for potential workarounds: Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148 See the “Number Pages Across Files” section at this link: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document feature—for an introduction to them, see he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files he http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm tebdom wrote: I have designed headings with outlining that work fine when I apply the styles in the Master Doc to the sub docs. However, after saving all docs and reopeining the master doc & expanding sub docs, several of the headings are no longer there. I have to reapply the style |
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