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Originally Posted by pooldead View Post
I have some Procedure documents at work that I have combined into one Master document
I trust you're not using what Microsoft calls Master documents. These are a long standing source of catastrophic document corruption. See:
Why Master Documents corrupt
Master Documents Feature in Microsoft Word - from the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Microsoft Word
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Is it possible to link these documents together, so that if I make an update to an individual document, the Master receives the same update automatically?
If you want to link contents from multiple documents together, that can be done via Word's INCLUDETEXT field - which is what Word creates for you if you use Insert|Object|>Text from File>Insert as Link. See: Field codes: IncludeText field - Office Support

Word also provides an RD field which allows you to have a Table of Contents in one document that references content in another document. See: Field codes: RD (Referenced Document) field - Office Support

You may also find https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...nal-files.html helpful when using INCLUDETEXT & RD fields to link documents that may need to be moved around.
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