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ivorybow
I am writing a book and I want to use the Master Document function
(Office XP Word) to organize it. Otherwise I have to work with each
chapter as an individual file which is unwieldy. I created a Master
Document, put it in a folder called My Book, then I moved all the
individual files into that folder. As per the instructions, I inserted
chapter 1 into the master doc as a sub document. So far so good. But
here is where I am about to go nuts. When I am writing inside the
subdocument Chapter 1, every time I hit the Tab key to indent, it
reformats that chapter into Heading 2, huge font, bold and italic. The
only way I can avoid this is using the space bar 5 times to indent. The
formatting has been taken over and I can't use normal key functions.
Also, there is a little square to the left of each paragraph. ??? I
moved the file outside of the document to try to short circuit the
formatting craziness but it still behaves the same. Does anybody have
any idea what is going on? Microsoft's site only has the basic
instructions on how to create a master document, nothing about how it
affects formatting. I am about to throw up my hands. Can't microsoft
make something simple that just works and doesn't cost my firstborn
child?
(Office XP Word) to organize it. Otherwise I have to work with each
chapter as an individual file which is unwieldy. I created a Master
Document, put it in a folder called My Book, then I moved all the
individual files into that folder. As per the instructions, I inserted
chapter 1 into the master doc as a sub document. So far so good. But
here is where I am about to go nuts. When I am writing inside the
subdocument Chapter 1, every time I hit the Tab key to indent, it
reformats that chapter into Heading 2, huge font, bold and italic. The
only way I can avoid this is using the space bar 5 times to indent. The
formatting has been taken over and I can't use normal key functions.
Also, there is a little square to the left of each paragraph. ??? I
moved the file outside of the document to try to short circuit the
formatting craziness but it still behaves the same. Does anybody have
any idea what is going on? Microsoft's site only has the basic
instructions on how to create a master document, nothing about how it
affects formatting. I am about to throw up my hands. Can't microsoft
make something simple that just works and doesn't cost my firstborn
child?