Chapter 23. Using Master Documents

In this chapter

Understanding Master Documents 704

Creating a Master Document 706

Viewing and Collapsing Subdocuments 709

Editing Subdocuments 710

Modifying the Master Document’s Structure 711

Paginating and Printing a Master Document 716

Troubleshooting 716

Understanding Master Documents

When a Word document grows to be more than a certain size—usually around 100 pages or so—it starts becoming unwieldy to work with. It takes longer to save and open than normal, and sometimes there are delays in scrolling, pagination, and picture display. And the larger it gets, the more pronounced the problems become. To get around this, many people create large documents in chunks, with each chunk residing in a separate Word ...

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