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  #11  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 11:04 AM
Jeff
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Make sure that your backups are separate and don't overwrite each other. A
file may corrupt before you realize that it is.


Now I am paranoid all over again grin.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Make sure that your backups are separate and don't overwrite each other. A
file may corrupt before you realize that it is.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Hi Daiya.

Thanks for all the urls. I'll look them up.

I already do frequent backups, so my concern is not about losing the
entire
file, but opening the file and finding the images corrupted, replaced by
red
Xs or something like that. That would be very hard to recover from.

Thanks.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
See here, for one:
Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

IncludeText Fields might be an option, though this is a simplistic intro
to
them:
http://daiya.mvps.org/includetext.htm

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

More on why MDs are unreliable:

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

You are not wrong to worry about putting all eggs in one basket, but the
answer to that is backup frequently--turn on the Make BackUp option as
Anne
said, but also backup frequently yourself.

I am not sure what difference frames may make to any of these options.
Theoretically, none, I think.


On 6/21/05 11:49 AM, "Jeff" wrote:

Hi (using Word 2002 in XP).

I am writing a book that has many chapters. It is a complex book, so
I'm
writing a little in one chapter and a little in another at various
times,
adding ideas as they come along. At present each chapter is in a
separate
file, but that has created a great many separate files and I am looking
for
a way to coordinate them. I therefore thought of the Master document as
a
tool to do this. I used to use the Master document when I was writing
in
WordPerfect 5.1 and it worked very well for me. But I heard that
master
documents have problems and a great risk of corruption in Word. Is
that
true? What kind of problems occur with Master documents. Can they be
avoided?

Any suggestions as to how to maintain a "big picture" of all the
chapters
in
this manuscript? I could of course put them all in one huge file with
the
heading chapters creating a master list in the TOC - and I'm
considering
doing that - but the idea of putting all the eggs in one basket that
might
get corrupted somehow bothers me. Am I wrong to worry about that?

This manuscript has a lot of illustrations (if that makes a difference
in
the responses) and I use frames to position them within the document.

Thanks for any suggestions and ideas.

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/








  #12  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 11:08 AM
Jeff
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The original images are all elsewhere and I never do anything with them in
Word except reduce them to fit (not cropping, but using the corner anchors)
and removing the default borders from the frames. The reason I insert them
in Word now is because I have reference links (not sure of the exact term
for it) in the text to their figure numbers.

Good to know about the red X.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
It's my understanding that the Red X is often a display problem but
doesn't
necessarily mean the images have been corrupted, but that's just some
small
experience, and on the Mac.

Like Anne says, don't do any photo editing in Word, in which case you
should
have the original image files somewhere, no? Making corrupted images an
exceedingly painful and tedious situation, but not irrecoverable.

Re Doc Map, here's some more links:

How it works:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html

A couple caveats that *should* be irrelevant to you, using Word 2002:
http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm

Another good way to work with long documents, especially if you decide to
rearrange text, is Outline View:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
(though rearranging across IncludeText fields could get ugly)


On 6/21/05 7:15 PM, "Jeff" wrote:

Hi Daiya.

Thanks for all the urls. I'll look them up.

I already do frequent backups, so my concern is not about losing the
entire
file, but opening the file and finding the images corrupted, replaced by
red
Xs or something like that. That would be very hard to recover from.

Thanks.


--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/



  #13  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 11:10 AM
Jeff
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Great tips. Thanks.

1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc.


I actually work on the images in Paint Shop Pro and then transfer them. Do
you mention PSP just as an example or because it has a particular intrinsic
value? They are not drawings but mostly scanned images or photos.

5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this. It
tends to bloat the doc.


What does this mean?

7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.


Unfortunately that does not work well for me.

Thank you.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Anne Troy" wrote in message
news:33b81$42b90738$466eb880$10575@allthenewsgroup s.com...
Hi, Jeff. Some things you can do to AVOID corruption:
1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc. If
you
lose the image, it's in PPT. Also, corruption OFTEN occurs with documents
that contain multiple drawn objects with multiple parts.
2. Make sure your pictures are compressed and resized BEFORE you insert
them
into Word. A good photo shouldn't need to be more than 100KB. You can use
www.Irfanview.com as a free graphic compression software.
3. Do not crop or resize pictures in Word. When you crop, you're literally
carrying a copy of the original size AND the cropped size! Double-dipping!
4. Get yourself a GMail account (I've got invites if you need one). Then,
email a copy of the document to yourself when you're done working on it.
Heck...I bet somebody could get you a macro that'll do it for you
automatically when you close your document.
5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this. It
tends to bloat the doc.
6. Don't be afraid of a document that's 10MB, though even a 400+ Word 2003
document of ONLY text isn't quite 2MB.
7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com



"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Hi Robert

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is

whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files. These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)


Yes they all were and will be written using the same template and styles.

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields, then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now. Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?


There will be about 400 pages (book pages) plus a great many images.
Never
heard of INCLUDETEXT fields. I'll have to read up on it.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The question

I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text around

your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not made

in
Word itself)?


I only recently discovered frames which is why I asked the question since
they add complexity, and yes I am running text around the frames and
their
captions. The illustrations are mostly photographs. I insert them into

Word
using Insert/picture/from file. Is that the best way to do it?

Thanks.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hello Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I am writing a book that has many chapters. It is a complex book, so

I'm
writing a little in one chapter and a little in another at various

times,
adding ideas as they come along. At present each chapter is in a

separate
file, but that has created a great many separate files and I am
looking
for a way to coordinate them. I therefore thought of the Master

document
as a tool to do this. I used to use the Master document when I was
writing in WordPerfect 5.1 and it worked very well for me. But I
heard
that master documents have problems and a great risk of corruption in
Word. Is that true? What kind of problems occur with Master

documents.
Can they be avoided?

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is

whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files. These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)


Any suggestions as to how to maintain a "big picture" of all the

chapters
in this manuscript? I could of course put them all in one huge file

with
the heading chapters creating a master list in the TOC - and I'm
considering doing that - but the idea of putting all the eggs in one
basket that might get corrupted somehow bothers me. Am I wrong to

worry
about that?

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields, then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now. Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?


This manuscript has a lot of illustrations (if that makes a difference

in
the responses) and I use frames to position them within the document.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The question

I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text around

your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not made

in
Word itself)?

Greetinx
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word








  #14  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 03:25 PM
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
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Hi Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I only recently discovered frames which is why I asked the question since
they add complexity, and yes I am running text around the frames and their
captions. The illustrations are mostly photographs. I insert them into Word
using Insert/picture/from file. Is that the best way to do it?


OK, if you want text flowing around, you need to use either a table cell
or a frame. A textbox won't do, beceause Word has a habit of not
"finding" the captions in there (which makes your table of figures
rather useless! :-)).

A frame might not lend as many options concerning "flow-around", but it
has another benefit that tables don't offer: you can make a frame part
of a style, say, the Caption style. Type your caption text, apply the
style (which frames it and positions the frame in the predefined way),
then, with your cursor at the start of the frame, insert (from file) the
picture.

Greetinx
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word
  #15  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 04:12 PM
Charles Kenyon
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Resizing also bloats your files, I believe.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Jeff" wrote in message
erio.net...
The original images are all elsewhere and I never do anything with them in
Word except reduce them to fit (not cropping, but using the corner
anchors) and removing the default borders from the frames. The reason I
insert them in Word now is because I have reference links (not sure of the
exact term for it) in the text to their figure numbers.

Good to know about the red X.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
It's my understanding that the Red X is often a display problem but
doesn't
necessarily mean the images have been corrupted, but that's just some
small
experience, and on the Mac.

Like Anne says, don't do any photo editing in Word, in which case you
should
have the original image files somewhere, no? Making corrupted images an
exceedingly painful and tedious situation, but not irrecoverable.

Re Doc Map, here's some more links:

How it works:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html

A couple caveats that *should* be irrelevant to you, using Word 2002:
http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm

Another good way to work with long documents, especially if you decide to
rearrange text, is Outline View:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
(though rearranging across IncludeText fields could get ugly)


On 6/21/05 7:15 PM, "Jeff" wrote:

Hi Daiya.

Thanks for all the urls. I'll look them up.

I already do frequent backups, so my concern is not about losing the
entire
file, but opening the file and finding the images corrupted, replaced by
red
Xs or something like that. That would be very hard to recover from.

Thanks.


--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/





  #16  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 05:22 PM
Anne Troy
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Hee hee, Jeff...

1. I mentioned PPT just because not everybody has graphics apps. If you're
using PSP, it's fine. You're exporting to JPG first, though, right?

5. There's options to save to, for instance, Word 97. When you do this, Word
can actually save BOTH versions, which bloats the file size. You're probably
not doing it.

7. I hear you. Me either. I am actually in the processing of writing an
eBook for DTP in Word.

Good luck, okay?

*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com


"Jeff" wrote in message
. verio.net...
Great tips. Thanks.

1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in

PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc.


I actually work on the images in Paint Shop Pro and then transfer them. Do
you mention PSP just as an example or because it has a particular

intrinsic
value? They are not drawings but mostly scanned images or photos.

5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this. It
tends to bloat the doc.


What does this mean?

7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.


Unfortunately that does not work well for me.

Thank you.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Anne Troy" wrote in message
news:33b81$42b90738$466eb880$10575@allthenewsgroup s.com...
Hi, Jeff. Some things you can do to AVOID corruption:
1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in

PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc. If
you
lose the image, it's in PPT. Also, corruption OFTEN occurs with

documents
that contain multiple drawn objects with multiple parts.
2. Make sure your pictures are compressed and resized BEFORE you insert
them
into Word. A good photo shouldn't need to be more than 100KB. You can

use
www.Irfanview.com as a free graphic compression software.
3. Do not crop or resize pictures in Word. When you crop, you're

literally
carrying a copy of the original size AND the cropped size!

Double-dipping!
4. Get yourself a GMail account (I've got invites if you need one).

Then,
email a copy of the document to yourself when you're done working on it.
Heck...I bet somebody could get you a macro that'll do it for you
automatically when you close your document.
5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this. It
tends to bloat the doc.
6. Don't be afraid of a document that's 10MB, though even a 400+ Word

2003
document of ONLY text isn't quite 2MB.
7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com



"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Hi Robert

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is

whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same

template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files. These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)

Yes they all were and will be written using the same template and

styles.

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields,

then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now. Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?

There will be about 400 pages (book pages) plus a great many images.
Never
heard of INCLUDETEXT fields. I'll have to read up on it.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The question

I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text around

your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking

about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not

made
in
Word itself)?

I only recently discovered frames which is why I asked the question

since
they add complexity, and yes I am running text around the frames and
their
captions. The illustrations are mostly photographs. I insert them into

Word
using Insert/picture/from file. Is that the best way to do it?

Thanks.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hello Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I am writing a book that has many chapters. It is a complex book, so

I'm
writing a little in one chapter and a little in another at various

times,
adding ideas as they come along. At present each chapter is in a

separate
file, but that has created a great many separate files and I am
looking
for a way to coordinate them. I therefore thought of the Master

document
as a tool to do this. I used to use the Master document when I was
writing in WordPerfect 5.1 and it worked very well for me. But I
heard
that master documents have problems and a great risk of corruption

in
Word. Is that true? What kind of problems occur with Master

documents.
Can they be avoided?

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is

whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same

template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files. These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)


Any suggestions as to how to maintain a "big picture" of all the

chapters
in this manuscript? I could of course put them all in one huge file

with
the heading chapters creating a master list in the TOC - and I'm
considering doing that - but the idea of putting all the eggs in one
basket that might get corrupted somehow bothers me. Am I wrong to

worry
about that?

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields,

then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now. Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?


This manuscript has a lot of illustrations (if that makes a

difference
in
the responses) and I use frames to position them within the

document.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The question

I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text around

your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking

about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not

made
in
Word itself)?

Greetinx
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word









  #17  
Old June 22nd, 2005, 06:32 PM
Jeff
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Thank you very much Anne. Its all very helpful.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Anne Troy" wrote in message
news:9af69$42b98fc7$466eb880$14187@allthenewsgroup s.com...
Hee hee, Jeff...

1. I mentioned PPT just because not everybody has graphics apps. If you're
using PSP, it's fine. You're exporting to JPG first, though, right?

5. There's options to save to, for instance, Word 97. When you do this,
Word
can actually save BOTH versions, which bloats the file size. You're
probably
not doing it.

7. I hear you. Me either. I am actually in the processing of writing an
eBook for DTP in Word.

Good luck, okay?

*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com


"Jeff" wrote in message
. verio.net...
Great tips. Thanks.

1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in

PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc.


I actually work on the images in Paint Shop Pro and then transfer them.
Do
you mention PSP just as an example or because it has a particular

intrinsic
value? They are not drawings but mostly scanned images or photos.

5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this.
It
tends to bloat the doc.


What does this mean?

7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.


Unfortunately that does not work well for me.

Thank you.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Anne Troy" wrote in message
news:33b81$42b90738$466eb880$10575@allthenewsgroup s.com...
Hi, Jeff. Some things you can do to AVOID corruption:
1. If you use drawing objects, please, please, please do it in

PowerPoint
and group them, then copy and paste as a picture into your Word doc. If
you
lose the image, it's in PPT. Also, corruption OFTEN occurs with

documents
that contain multiple drawn objects with multiple parts.
2. Make sure your pictures are compressed and resized BEFORE you insert
them
into Word. A good photo shouldn't need to be more than 100KB. You can

use
www.Irfanview.com as a free graphic compression software.
3. Do not crop or resize pictures in Word. When you crop, you're

literally
carrying a copy of the original size AND the cropped size!

Double-dipping!
4. Get yourself a GMail account (I've got invites if you need one).

Then,
email a copy of the document to yourself when you're done working on
it.
Heck...I bet somebody could get you a macro that'll do it for you
automatically when you close your document.
5. Never save it to a lesser version--not an important doc like this.
It
tends to bloat the doc.
6. Don't be afraid of a document that's 10MB, though even a 400+ Word

2003
document of ONLY text isn't quite 2MB.
7. Unless your "desktop publishing" it now, don't put the pictures in
until
you're done writing.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com



"Jeff" wrote in message
...
Hi Robert

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is
whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same

template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files.
These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)

Yes they all were and will be written using the same template and

styles.

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields,

then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now.
Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?

There will be about 400 pages (book pages) plus a great many images.
Never
heard of INCLUDETEXT fields. I'll have to read up on it.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The
question
I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text
around
your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking

about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not

made
in
Word itself)?

I only recently discovered frames which is why I asked the question

since
they add complexity, and yes I am running text around the frames and
their
captions. The illustrations are mostly photographs. I insert them into
Word
using Insert/picture/from file. Is that the best way to do it?

Thanks.

--

Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam



"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hello Jeff

Jeff wrote:
I am writing a book that has many chapters. It is a complex book,
so
I'm
writing a little in one chapter and a little in another at various
times,
adding ideas as they come along. At present each chapter is in a
separate
file, but that has created a great many separate files and I am
looking
for a way to coordinate them. I therefore thought of the Master
document
as a tool to do this. I used to use the Master document when I was
writing in WordPerfect 5.1 and it worked very well for me. But I
heard
that master documents have problems and a great risk of corruption

in
Word. Is that true? What kind of problems occur with Master
documents.
Can they be avoided?

To add to what others have said already: A big question for me is
whether
the individual files you have right now are based on the same

template,
and whether the formatting used is consistent over these files.
These
things need sorting out if not only done so; and before that, even
_thinking_ about a Master Document might corrupt your work! :-)


Any suggestions as to how to maintain a "big picture" of all the
chapters
in this manuscript? I could of course put them all in one huge file
with
the heading chapters creating a master list in the TOC - and I'm
considering doing that - but the idea of putting all the eggs in
one
basket that might get corrupted somehow bothers me. Am I wrong to
worry
about that?

You could easily test the big file scenario: Bring all the chapters
into
one file via INCLUDETEXT fields. Save the file with active fields,

then
(in a copy), unlink all the fields. You have one big file now.
Fiddle
around with it a bit, how many pages are there? How big (filesize)?


This manuscript has a lot of illustrations (if that makes a

difference
in
the responses) and I use frames to position them within the

document.

Like Daiya, I don't see much problem with frames per se. The
question
I'd
raise here is what you use them for: Are you running body text
around
your
frames/illustrations? What kind of illustrations are we talking

about,
btw, and how were they inserted into Word (presuming they were not

made
in
Word itself)?

Greetinx
Robert
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