Styles in Master doc with Sub docs

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tebdom

I have designed headings with outlining that work fine when I apply the
styles in the Master Doc to the sub docs. However, after saving all docs and
reopeining the master doc & expanding sub docs, several of the headings are
no longer there. I have to reapply the style
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents,
and thus may not have any help to offer, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

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

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/wordhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

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

See the “Number Pages Across Files†section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature—for an introduction to them, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big
files here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
 
T

tebdom

Thank you for the information. I figured out the problem but these links
will be useful in the future. Unfortunately I cannot combine the chapters
into one doc - there are too many graphics and word dogs when editing.

Daiya Mitchell said:
Most of the people posting here don’t know much about master documents,
and thus may not have any help to offer, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

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

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/wordhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

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

See the “Number Pages Across Files†section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature—for an introduction to them, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big
files here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm



I have designed headings with outlining that work fine when I apply the
styles in the Master Doc to the sub docs. However, after saving all docs and
reopeining the master doc & expanding sub docs, several of the headings are
no longer there. I have to reapply the style
 

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