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How can I save a master document in the expanded view?
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"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a sure way to destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt soon. See URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the Master Document feature and workarounds. (This page also has a link to Steve Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) See URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm for more information on what goes wrong, and URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm for ideas on how to salvage what you can. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm Word Resources Page URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm See also the MVP FAQ: URL: 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. "Scott" wrote in message ... How can I save a master document in the expanded view? |
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G'day "Scott" ,
You cannot get Masters to save 'expanded'. Bringing in the sub dox is a manual process. If you really wanted you could do something like this in the template that the master uses: Public Sub AutoOpen() Dim Subby as SubDocument With ActiveDocument If .IsMasterDocument then for each subby in .SubDocuments Subby.Open next end if end with end sub Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Scott reckoned: How can I save a master document in the expanded view? |
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Word Heretic,
Where exactly do I put this code to get the master to automatically open all of the sub documents? Thank you, Scott "Word Heretic" wrote: G'day "Scott" , You cannot get Masters to save 'expanded'. Bringing in the sub dox is a manual process. If you really wanted you could do something like this in the template that the master uses: Public Sub AutoOpen() Dim Subby as SubDocument With ActiveDocument If .IsMasterDocument then for each subby in .SubDocuments Subby.Open next end if end with end sub Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Scott reckoned: How can I save a master document in the expanded view? |
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Heretic-
I got your code to work. The only thing is that is opens the subdocments into two other windows. I need the master to expand automatically- subdocuments are viewable in the master document window of Word. Thank you, Scott "Scott" wrote: Word Heretic, Where exactly do I put this code to get the master to automatically open all of the sub documents? Thank you, Scott "Word Heretic" wrote: G'day "Scott" , You cannot get Masters to save 'expanded'. Bringing in the sub dox is a manual process. If you really wanted you could do something like this in the template that the master uses: Public Sub AutoOpen() Dim Subby as SubDocument With ActiveDocument If .IsMasterDocument then for each subby in .SubDocuments Subby.Open next end if end with end sub Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Scott reckoned: How can I save a master document in the expanded view? |
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G'day "Scott" ,
Try ActiveDocument.Subdocuments.Expanded=True Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Scott reckoned: Heretic- I got your code to work. The only thing is that is opens the subdocments into two other windows. I need the master to expand automatically- subdocuments are viewable in the master document window of Word. Thank you, Scott "Scott" wrote: Word Heretic, Where exactly do I put this code to get the master to automatically open all of the sub documents? Thank you, Scott "Word Heretic" wrote: G'day "Scott" , You cannot get Masters to save 'expanded'. Bringing in the sub dox is a manual process. If you really wanted you could do something like this in the template that the master uses: Public Sub AutoOpen() Dim Subby as SubDocument With ActiveDocument If .IsMasterDocument then for each subby in .SubDocuments Subby.Open next end if end with end sub Steve Hudson - Word Heretic Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Scott reckoned: How can I save a master document in the expanded view? |
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