Chapter 25 -- Creating and Controlling Master Documents

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Chapter 25

When you begin to work on longer documents, consistency and continuity become important. You need to make sure that all the various 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 up 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 insurance that the consistency and continuity of your document are intact.



Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out
Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735612781
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 337

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