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12. Master and Subdocuments

Flavio Morgado

(1)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this chapter you will learn about Microsoft Word Master and Subdocuments feature, which allows you to manage independent documents (called Subdocuments) in a single file (called Master documents), to produce a final document that constitutes the essence of the collaborative work of different people enrolled to pursue the same task, such as the production of a book that contains independent chapters from many different authors.

Using the Master and Subdocuments approach, you can define a template of chapter and section names and from there create, split, and merge the ...

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