Master/Subdocuments v long documents

[jujuwillis]

I wonder if anyone can help.

I have a standard document, which I have to insert other document
into, usually by the time I've finished with it its about 100 pages
the advice I want is as follows:

1. Would I be better using master/subdocument
2. If documents inserted are not based on the same template am I righ
in assuming that the inserted document takes on the original template
styles?
3. Would I be better to use the include text fields for the inserte
documents, or would this be courting danger in corrupting my document.

Any help or tips would be appreciated

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi jujuwillis

1. For information about master/subdocuments see
Why Master Documents corrupt
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

and

How to recover a Master Document
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

2. For information on copying or inserting text from one document into
another see

Why does text change format when I copy it from one document to another?
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html

3. I'm not aware of any specific corruption issues created with
IncludeText fields. IncludeText fields are useful when you have a need
to maintain separate documents for separate distribution, and then
create one big document, for example for printing. When you update the
IncludeText fields in the main document (eg when you open the document,
or print preview it), any changes to the included files will be
reflected in the main document.

Overall, 100 pages isn't long for a Word document. The maximum is 32MB
of text, plus graphics. You'll almost certainly run out of memory and
suffer performance problems long before Word reaches that limit. If
you've only got 100 pages, I'd stick to one document.


Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia