Chapter 20: Creating and Controlling Master Documents

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Overview

When you work on longer documents, consistency and continuity become important. You need to make sure that all the parts of your document use the same styles, treat tables and figures the same way, and have consistent headers and footers. You need to be able to check the overall organization of your document, making sure that the topics flow logically and that you've arranged them in the best possible order.

This is easy to do when you're working with 10, 20, or even 30 pages. But what about those book-length projects for which various team members are taking a chapter or two, somebody else is plugging in the charts, and yet another person is checking the citations and references? It's in this type of situation that Word's master and subdocument features really shine. By using those features, you can divide a large document into pieces-for example, giving a chapter to each team member-and then integrate them back into one piece; you can have both the benefit of working with a team to get a major project done and the confidence that the consistency and continuity of your document are intact.



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Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out
Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out)
ISBN: 0735615152
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 373

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