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Subject:Re: Master Documents & Word 2007 From:Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:41:58 -0500
I just hooked up with an editor colleague to provide custom formatting to meet the arcane formatting requirements for a PhD dissertation. I'm going to be doing another shortly.
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Janet Swisher wrote:
> The article is from the Office Watch site, which is run by Woody
> Leonhard, though he has a number of people writing for it these days.
> The site is known for straight-shooting no-holds-barred reporting on
> MS Office-related issues. I would not expect them to publish something
> without high confidence that it is correct.
>
> A key point of the article is that master documents have been
> reimplemented in Word 2007+ (probably in connection with the move to
> .docx format). John McGhie's article says that it is for Word 97 and
> above, but it doesn't look like it has been updated for more recent
> versions.
>
> All that said, I haven't tried master documents in Word 2007, but I
> forwarded the article to my husband, who seems determined to write his
> dissertation in Word.
>
> --Janet
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