Choosing How to Create a New Master Document
If you've learned how to use outlines, you're halfway toward understanding master documents, too. Master documents closely resemble outlines, and you control them in Outline view (page 591), using the buttons on Word's Outlining toolbar. The primary difference: You're outlining material that comes from several documents rather than one.
→ To learn more about outlining, seeCreating a New Outline.
You can create master documents in two ways:
You can do it from scratch, by outlining your document and then dividing it into subdocuments.
You can make existing documents part of your master document.
Whenever possible, you're better off creating your master documents from scratch. It's quick, easy, and you ...
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