On or near 3/6/01 2:16 PM, Günther Vansteelant at
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> These manuals can be very complex and Word just can't
> handle large documents (sooner or later they get corrupted).
> Hyperlinks is what saved my but. Nowadays I just chop it all up into
> separate documents (15 pages max) and link it all together using hyperlinks.
> Makes online reading (which is "the thing" now) even easier.
>
I used Word 5 to write a 320-page book, which I printed on my little laser
printer. Looks pretty decent in print, too. I did this by using the "next
file" option in Word 5. The page numbering actually carried over from file
to file, not bad; although I did have some trouble with the styles not being
identical. There was one page in the book--one page, go figure--where the
heading appeared in the wrong font. Other than that, it worked.
Every time I open one of those old files, which I do fairly often to copy
some of the material for quotation, Word 2001 offers to make it into a
Master Document. I'm tempted to try it, but after all the discussion here it
seems like a bad idea. Now I have two options: keep it all in a single huge
file and use outline mode to copy a chapter to edit it; or make it smaller,
separate files connected by hyper links. That won't really work for a book
with consecutive page numbering, though. I'm thinking a lot about this
because, within the next six months, I need to revise the book for the
second edition.
Anyone have any other suggestions for doing book-length documents? I also
have Nisus Writer 5.1.3, but I've run into similar problems with that. In
fact Word 5.0 did better with very long docs, I think. I suppose I could
bite the bullet and buy Quark or Pagemaker...any recommendations there?
> On 06-03-2001 17:58, "Sherman Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> But yes, I agree: Word 2001 is the best (since 6, anyway).
Since 5.0, you mean? 6 was <terrible>!
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