How to create subdocuments with relative path names

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GErry

Does anyone know how to set up microsoft word application
so that when you create sub documents from a master
document the location of the document uses a relative path
rather than a full path.

Thanks

Gerry
 
Hi Gerry,

I don't use master documents; but shouldn't find Word the subdocuments
anyway, as long as they are all in the same folder with the master document?
If you keep the subdocuments in different folders, I don't think that is a
good idea...
At least John McGhie says so... and with a half-broken feature like "master
documents" I wouldn't introduce complications if not absolutely necessary
;-)

Regards,
Klaus
 
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"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 (with the
limited exception of Steve Hudson) 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. (This page also has a link to Steve
Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) 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.


--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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