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I'm a Lead Program Manager in the Digital Documents group at Microsoft; we're part of the Windows team.

Word and long documents

Well, I work here at Microsoft but that doesn't mean I like everything about all of our products :-) I'm using Microsoft Word on a big document with a lot of chapters and I'd really like to be able to break the chapters out into their own files, using some kind of include mechanism to "rollup" the whole document. Word has a bunch of features that should help with this like the INCLUDETEXT field code, but the way it deals with relative paths is brain-dead (i.e., it just doesn't -- includes are relative to Word's current directory, not the document itself). Whacko. :-(
Published Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:21 PM by dornstein
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anon said:

means it was never used.
January 4, 2004 10:16 AM
 

Paul Hill said:

January 5, 2004 1:40 AM
 

David Ornstein said:

Well, master documents ad subdocuments are generally accepted to be super fragile as well. Again, relative linking doesn't seem to work well and documents seems to get corrupted pretty easily. I guess haven't tried pushing this very hard in Word 2003, but it ate a pile of my docs in the past and the consensus I've seen on the net is that it's unsafe at any speed :-) I would love to hear that it's gotten better in 2003.
January 5, 2004 9:00 AM
 

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March 24, 2004 1:53 PM
 

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