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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:07:01 -0600, in bit.listserv.techwr-l
lawrence_landis -at- yahoo -dot- com wrote:
> $As a test, I mocked up the contents of 3 Word docs. I had Word include the
> $chapter number with the page number in the footer of each.
> $
> $I then made a master doc and included these 3 documents as subdocuments.
> $
> $When I generated an index for the master document, instead of, say, "3-5",
> $I just get "5" (though the page numbers show chapter number and dash
> $separator in the individual chapter documents).
> $
> $Has anyone run into this before, and if so, how did you handle it?
> $
> $Feel free to reply directly off-list.
> $
> $Thanks!
The Master Document feature in Word does have a reputation for
being bug infested and unreliable.
While I haven't run into the problem you describe, and haven't
run into some of the more interesting horror stories that abound,
I haven't done much in the line of large documents using the
feature either. Mine have all been suitably short.
I expect it will not be long before torrents of posters post many
examples of projects using the Master Document feature that went
horribly awry.
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