Hello, I hope someone can help me....
I have created a master document and added all the relevant sub-documents, saved it then I went to Print Layout and saved as PDF. closed it all down, then when I opened the Master Document again, only one of the sub-documents was there!
All the files are saved as .docx and they are all in the same location and not on the network.


Many thanks,
Grainger

Sadly, you may be the victim of Word's master document corruption. See:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm

Ultimately, the only solution is to not use master documents, especially if you value your work...

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for your reply, I was beginning to wonder that.... My reason for wanting to use a Master Document:

I am creating a manual that has multiple chapters that are separate Word Files and I need to hyperlink between these documents. When I turn the whole thing into one PDF for online viewing, I would the links to go to the relevant page in the PDF without the link opening the source Word file.

Do you know if there is another way around this?

Many thanks again.

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.

Otherwise, see Dian Chapman's page on using RD Fields or if really needed, Steve Hudson's detailed instructions on how to safely make use of the MD feature.

thanks guys, have a nice weekend.