Ok! This was stabbing me right in the self-confidence because I'm not an MS Word troglodyte! But I also know it's been updated a lot since I've used the more extended features, so I was getting frustrated.

Perhaps you have a better solution?

Ok, I'm working from a large master document that is divided into chapters. I have to edit each individual chapters, but it's easier to work with a copy of the master because it's a continuous story. So, do my editing marks, that's good. But it's a huge document, so I typically pull out 10 chapters at a time to edit, on a separate document. It makes it easier to make more mass-edits, like name changes, if I'm not repeatedly doing it every chapter.

Anyway, when I submit these docs to Drive, I have to split them up again into individual chapters, 1 file per chapter.

I can do this manually but there is a big push for meeting deadlines. It takes a moment to do it manually (copying into a fresh doc, naming, etc.)

Thus, my group suggested the Outline feature. I'd just come back to this kind of project but this was a new suggestion. It sounded great from the concept, but it won't work for me, and I'm struggling to meet my required word count.

Any suggestions? Thank you!