How save a Master document?
Hello Jose,
I can't write such a macro and would not if I could because doing anything
to enable your use of Master Documents would be doing you a disservice.
"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus among those
offering advice on these newsgroups is that using the Master Document
feature is a sure way to destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your
document that you are not even working on! I think John McGhie said it
succinctly when he said that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those
that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt soon. See <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm> for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.
Hope this helps.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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> How can I save a Master Document (option View, and later Master Document)
> totally finished.?
> I just want to save it as a normal document, in order that the
Subdocuments
> doesn't change for ever.
> Can you write me a macro for Word 97 to do this.
> Every week a team write a magazine in a Master document which has all the
> articles, and for the following week the magazin has oder informacion
(same
> subdocuments but different information). Every articule is in a
subdocument.
> If I save the Marster and change de subdocuments, the copy of this Master
> change as well, and I don't want that. I want a copy of the Master
document
> of the news of each issue of the magazine. A copy which doesn't change.
Do
> you know what I mean?
> Can you write me a macro for Word 97 to do this.
> Thanks
> --
> Jose Puig *** Spain ***
