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Subject:Re: Word's "Master Document" feature From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:"Kevin McGowan" <thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 31 May 2007 14:10:28 -0500
At 2:04 PM -0400 5/31/07, Kevin McGowan wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone use the Master Document feature in Word? By its description, it
>sounds like an equivalent to the FrameMaker book feature...is it really
>comparable? Is it relatively easy to use?
>
>I'll eventually be moving out of Word, but I would like to break my current
>LARGE documents into smaller chunks and this sounds like a good idea.
>
>If anyone has any experience, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin
As the other responses indicate, use Master Documents only at your
peril. It isn't ready for production level work. It isn't even ready
for hobby level.
Microsoft threw this feature in and has never revisited it. It isn't
a feature that is in high demand by the mass of the Word user base.
Face it, most Word users format their document by word, line and
paragraph. Most don't understand the paragraph and character tags.
Bottom line, Word's Master Document feature requires a rigid
methodology to work, with no exceptions allowed. Therefore, it isn't
useful in our line of work.
Scott
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