FYI: Word Master/subdocuments

[Tina Cipolla <tinacipolla -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

FYI to all of you techwrlers reading this Word thread.
 I was just recently forced to use the master document
feature in Word 2000. (I haven't attempted to use
master documents since version 6.0.) I am happy to
report that barring some minor bugs it worked.  And I
was able to deliver a hard copy and a soft copy of the
file to the client without any significant problems.

READ ON ONLY IF YOU WANT THE DETAILS...

It was a ~100 page document, heavy on graphics and
cross references with both a TOC and and Index.  It
was originally one document, but I kept having memory
errors and finally Word erased all of my graphics and
began crashing my system. In a panic my boss told me I
would have to break the document up because the
document was too large for word to handle.  With
dread, I decided to attempt using the master document
feature.  I decided to give it two days and if I
couldn't get it to work I would manually break the
document in half.  Damned if the thing didn't work.  I
had to reenter all of the grapics manually, and I lost
all of my procedural numbering (which I had to hard
code in) but the document now appears to be completely
stable.
Incedentally, I never had any major snafaus with
master documents in 6.0 either (other than some page
numbering annoyances).  But after reading on this list
what happened with v.97 master documents, I didn't
dare touch it.  But out of force I  tried it in v.2000
and it appears to work.
Has anyone else tried the master documents feature as
of late??

Tina

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