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EddyStC - 14 May 2008 17:32 GMT

My company has me taking apart some of our current manuals and setting them
up so that each individual section of the manuals could be accessed from one
of our offices remotely and the changes that they make update their in the
master copy that goes out to each of the workers on site.

The sending of the master and compiling of the sections individually is no
problem, however whenever I got to link the files into the master copy I
usually would just select Insert>Objects>Create From File>browse>insert the
file and select for the file to be linked to the source and for it not to be
displayed as an icon.

I'm getting to larger word documents and I found that anything that is
longer than 1 page in length in the original source document is only being
displayed as one page of content in the master. It seems to just cut off at
the bottom of the page that I'm trying to link it into.

Any suggestions?

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Jonathan West - 14 May 2008 17:45 GMT

Hi Eddy

I would recommend you don't attempt to use the Master Documents feature.
Take a look at this article for an alternative approach

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

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EddyStC - 14 May 2008 18:08 GMT

Thanks John,

I've never used Macros in the past so this is going to be something new
to work with. My only concern is when all is said and done, my supervisor
would like to have one full document to look at on his computer.
Now I'm working at a contracting company and the guys here aren't that
computer savvy so the simpler I can make this the better. Along with that,
once I got to print this full document with the macros is it going to haul
from each respected file?

Thanks again,

E

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EddyStC - 14 May 2008 18:21 GMT

Hi John,

I'm in trying to use the macros, for some reason whenever I go to type
in the 'D' in the RD code the brackets and everything else I've typed in for
that RD dissapears? could I have something set up wrong?

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Jonathan West - 14 May 2008 19:30 GMT

> Hi John,
>
> I'm in trying to use the macros, for some reason whenever I go to type
> in the 'D' in the RD code the brackets and everything else I've typed in
> for
> that RD dissapears? could I have something set up wrong?

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EddyStC - 14 May 2008 20:48 GMT

Hey John,

I checked the non printin characters, and there doesn't seem to be
anything there other than new paragraphs and space indicators. any other
idea why it might disapear once I hit D, and I've even tried copying and
pasting D in from the character map with no luck.

Cheers,

E

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