Master/Subdocument Word

[paris1927]

I have a very large document that I have put into a Master/subdocument format. Everything is great until I try to format it with a different header for the first page of each new section. It pushes the last paragraph out to the next section no matter what I do. Anyone know what I should do?

 

[fumei]

Huh? Want to describe that a wee bit more?

Describe a section.

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Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[paris1927]

There are about 50 subdocuments. I want the first page of each new subdocument to be on a first page with its own header that is different than the rest of the headers for the rest of the section. I've found if you insert next page section breaks in between the sections it will automatically insert the header exactly the way I want it. In the Normal view the document looks great. But when I save the master and later go to open a subdocument to make an edit, the last paragraph of the previous section (from the subdocument that comes right before the one I opened when in the master document) is saved in the subdocument. So, it looks like it just shift everything down one paragraph. I am assuming it is because I do not exactly know how to properly use the section breaks that Word automatically inserts into the document. And even though I've read every tip on the Web and read all the books I can find, nothing specifically addresses how to properly do this. I'm at a loss and am becoming an emotional wreck at work trying to get this document ready for print.

 

[fumei]

First off, I had better state that I hate Master/Sub documents, and gave up using them a long time ago. I mention this to make clear my bias.

That being said, let's see if I understand you correctly.

You have DifferentFirstPage on each subdoc. So - to be clear - each subdoc has: DifferentFirstPage ONLY.

That should not be a problem. WHEN are you doing this? It sounds like you are making that different first page while the subdocs are merged into the Master - rather than doing it on each subdoc independently. Otherwise, I can not see how the paragraph from a proceeding subdoc could get into the next.

Try setting up the DifferentFirstPage in each subdoc, before merging them into the Master.

I will give this a try and see if I can duplicate it.



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Gerry
My paintings and sculpture