I’ve got to create a Master document and I wanted to get anyone’s words of advice before starting. I’ve got several individual “Chapters” which I need to combine into one large “Book.” I figured I could best accomplish this with Word’s Master / Sub-Document feature. I’ve also got items in each Chapter tagged with TOC codes, so that once I get all the sub-docs put together nicely, I can create a TOC at the beginning of the whole master. I tried this about a week ago – before someone came back to me with all kinds of changes to the individual Chapters – and it was a little bit of a train wreck. Of course, the Headers/Footers were a mess, with random Section Break-Continuous’s turning into Section Break – Next Page’s. And when I created the TOC, for some reason the formatting of the TOC messed up the formatting on the original source text (from which the TOC codes were being pulled). So I figure that it was some of Word’s wacky “Auto-Think-For-Me” stuff going on here, and I wondered if anyone who’d worked with combining documents like this extensively had some advice for me to make this process go smoothly. I’d really like to take the individual docs – just like they are with their formatting/headers/footers/etc. – and pull them into one large document so that I can hyperlink some things from one Chapter to another, and create a TOC, etc. Is Master/Sub-Document the way to go? OR should I resort to good, old fashioned Copying and Pasting the sections into one main doc?
Thanks in advance –
Satiria
