Word 2000 in a Nutshell

Working in the Master Document

As you can see, it’s pretty easy to create a master document and to create or insert subdocuments within it. I’ve taken the master document for the book that I started earlier in the chapter and created subdocuments for each of the chapters and part pages (Figure 17-4). This results in a master document with eight subdocuments.

Figure 17-4. The finished master document

From within the master document, there are a number of different actions you can take:

• Edit the subdocument by typing directly into the subdocument box in the master document. Alternately, open the subdocument itself in a separate window by double-clicking the document icon in the upper left corner of the subdocument box or by clicking the hyperlink for a document shown in collapsed view (see the next bullet). Subdocuments can also be opened and edited directly from Windows by double-clicking the subdocument file.

• Collapse the view of all of the subdocuments by clicking the Collapse Subdocuments button on the Outlining toolbar. The collapsed view (Figure 17-5) shows the subdocument icon, a lock icon indicating that the subdocument is locked and cannot be edited from within the Master document, and a hyperlink for opening the subdocument itself. Once collapsed, the button on the toolbar becomes Expand Subdocuments for restoring the view. In expanded view, the subdocuments can be opened ...