MS word

[applepie]

can you link several word files together so you just have to open 1 text?

instead of cutting and pasting whole docs from word (as word will have a 99.9% chance of crashing), can I somehow link them all together in a specific order.

[Jen]

You could hyperlink the next doc at the end of the current one.

[tootricky]

Originally Posted by applepie

can you link several word files together so you just have to open 1 text?

instead of cutting and pasting whole docs from word (as word will have a 99.9% chance of crashing), can I somehow link them all together in a specific order.

I believe it is possible. I will check and get back to you.

Cheers/Nic

EDIT: Could you do something with Master and Sub-Documents?

[Sakara Drinker]

If you mean to make one big document then yes. Insert....File. Choose your file and up it comes. Keep doing that. Not sure if thats what you wanted though.

[applepie]

thanks will try those suggestions.

yup I just want to join about 5-10 different word files into 1 easy to access file without crashing word.

they are all fairly large files as I dont know how to link pic, graphs, etc properly. and I like being able to edit my graphs by double clicking it in word.

gotta re-format everything into 1 pdf file for printing purposes later on as well.

P.S I have no idea what master and sub-mas docs are? will look it up in word.

hyperlink doesnt work since it has to be 1 continuous txt doc.

insert file seems to work ok-ish but it messess up the formatting mainly the spacing on the added txt files

[chas49]

Originally Posted by applepie

thanks will try those suggestions.

yup I just want to join about 5-10 different word files into 1 easy to access file without crashing word.

they are all fairly large files as I dont know how to link pic, graphs, etc properly. and I like being able to edit my graphs by double clicking it in word.

gotta re-format everything into 1 pdf file for printing purposes later on as well.

P.S I have no idea what master and sub-mas docs are? will look it up in word.

hyperlink doesnt work since it has to be 1 continuous txt doc.

insert file seems to work ok-ish but it messess up the formatting mainly the spacing on the added txt files

It is Master and Sub-documents you want. Easiest way is to search in the help file.....

[thehappychappy]

Master and Sub Documents is a great feature of word.

Lets you do a template as the master set a TOC (table of Contents) then lets multiple authors work on each section whilst not locking the complete document which would happen if you made one big document without using sub docs for the sections.

Its defiantly Master and Sub Documents you want to use and the built in help within MS Word describes how to do it pretty easily.

or just use the MS knowledge base: How to create a master document and subdocuments in Word 2004 for Mac and in Word X for Mac

[Garf]

I would just join them together into one word doc using something like this Download setup.exe or one of the other hundreds of freeware tools that exist for this purpose.


Of course, you can always use the compare and merge tool that is built into ms wrd as well, but it's a bit, well, crap.

G

[MattS]

Master and Sub Documents is a great feature of word.

A bit of care. There is a saying,

" There are master documents that are corrupt and there are master documents that will be corrupt!"

Why Master Documents corrupt

[abucksdiver]

Originally Posted by chas49

It is Master and Sub-documents you want. Easiest way is to search in the help file.....

Have Microsoft got this working yet? In all the time I've tried using it, it never really worked without corrupting.... Each time I saved a change, I'd make a backup so that when the docs corrupted, I could go back a step.

I know it doesn't help, but Word is really not the tool you need... if you need to do this alot, you need to look at something designed for the job ie. Adobe FrameMaker etc.


Andrew