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Cross-references corrupt on saving a masterdocument
I'm in the final stages before printing of my graduate thesis, so I'm dealing with a 7 sub-document master document of 60 000 words and 50-odd figures... And a glitch just turned up in word.
I built this as a master document, and largely edit each sub-document separately. But i've been getting glitches where I cross-reference to figures, with the figure itself turning up in the cross-reference field, or just a blank line added. I've seen this discussed here in terms of "hidden bookmarking", and it seems to be a well-observed glitch. I've tried deleting the fields, and initially it looks ok. However, when I re-open the master document, and save it again, the glitches re-appear. Historically there is some bad feeling towards corruption of master documents, so I'm worried about the whole 60k document... Can master-doc problems link into cross-referencing problems? Thanks for your help. |
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I don't use master docs but it would be relatively easy to break cross-refs to other docs contained in a master doc set.
A single Word document can easily deal with files containing that amount of content. I would recommend you merge all your content into a single file and leave the master document complexities behind.
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Thanks,
Well, that took another 4 hours work to rebuild the document, but I think you're right... The time had come to build a more stable combined document. Done it now, and I think I've cleared out the cross-referencing glitches. Cheers Simon. |
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Please, make a backup of each component of your subdocuments and then take a look at Master Documents "Feature". You should never edit from within the Master Document.
Last edited by Charles Kenyon; 10-09-2016 at 08:15 PM. |
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