Re: Big Word Docs?

["Margaret Secara" <margaret -dot- secara -at- alphather -dot- com>]

 Steve does have a method that he swears works.  And several other people 
 on the Word list anyway assure us that Master Documents work just fine for 
 them, even without Young Goodman Hudson's magic. 

 However, as far as I can tell, the method requires you to plan ahead very 
 thoroughly and never swerve from your original outline or organizational 
 plan.  I don't know how this would work if you are picking up a legacy 
 document that is already out of hand.  It doesn't seem (to me) to be
possible--but I've been wrong before.
 
I haven't looked at Jean's books, but I'm a big fan of RD fields :) and 
 from my experience, I'd say stay well away from Master Docs.  When things 
 go wrong, they go really most sincerely wrong.  Text and graphics vanish 
 without a trace.  It's ugly.  Run away!

I also suspect the secret to handling large docs in Word is to go slow, save often, and avoid complicated formatting.  But who knows.
 
 
 Maggie Secara
 


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