I have a 150 pages word document. It's a book with 10 chapters with a large number of foot notes.


1. Is it possible to split this big file into 10 files, keeping the footnotes without losing their linkage?

2. And i'll ask it in another way, is there a way also to split and save it as 10 files with one save, keeping those foot notes without losing their linkage?

3. Is it a word-question or a vba-question?

If you split a document, any footnotes and endnotes go with whatever body content they're attached to.

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Paul Edstein
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Why do you want to split this into individual documents? Word easily handles 150-page documents.

The goal is converting it to HTML,
including footnotes which leads to external web pages.

So 150 pages book is too heavy to handle.
Better showing it as separate chapters.

Simply save ten numbered copies and trim the excess. Keep the original.

If the chapters are separated by Section breaks and each consists of the same number of Sections, you could use the Split Merged Output to Separate Documents macro on the Mailmerge Tips and Tricks page: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html

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Paul Edstein
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the book must be separated as files and not as section. i'm trying to avoid the "Error! Bookmark not defined"

That error will occur if you have a cross-reference to something that you delete from the document. The simple solution is to split the document in such a way that the cross-reference and whatever it refers to remain together.

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Paul Edstein
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this is the problem. i have many cross reffrences and i have to split the file

Then, you will need to edit each of those cross-references and change them to hyperlinks. When you do this, you will want to edit the fields to make them relative.
Word Fields and Relative Paths to External Files
This will be labor-intensive but it can be done.

Strictly speaking, conversion to hyperlinks isn't necessary. The same effect (without the hyperlink formatting) could be achieved by turning them into INCLUDETEXT fields pointing to the bookmarks concerned.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

It is possible to convert the Word document into separate html files and build a complex series of hyperlinks to cross-refer between html pages. BUT the complexity of what you are trying to achieve means it would be smarter to consider any alternatives.

If it were me doing the job, I would simply save the file as PDF and load that to my webserver.

If you do go down the labour-intensive path, you need to also consider any future updates - will they be made in the original Word source or will all those edits happen with a html editor in the individual files? If you need to maintain both formats, do you want to have to redo the conversion with each revision?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia