You can implement whatever linking you need via INCLUDETEXT fields. See Word's help file for details.

In any event, Word can handle single documents as large as 512Mb in size. Unless you're inserting loads of unnecessarily high resolution images, your chances of creating a file that large are probably quite small.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you again, I will give that a try.