Create A Master Document With Links To Subdocuments
Create A Master Document With Links To Subdocuments
Create A Master Document With Links To Subdocuments
Subdocuments
A master document will consist of a number of links to its subdocuments. And follow these links, you can
open the subdocument to which the master document is linked.
3. Click “Show Document” button, in the “Master Document” group. And then select “Insert”.
4. A dialog box comes up, and click to select the document file that needs to be inserted. And then click “Open”.
5. In the following window, which asks if you want to rename the style in the subdocument, click “No to all”.
6. In this way, the first subdocument has been successful inserted into the master document. To hide the content inside
the subdocument, you can just double click at the folder, as the follow picture shows.
7. Repeat the steps above, until you have added all the documents that you want to insert.
8. Switch back to “Print Layout” page, you can see that in the master document, we have incorporated all the
subdocument into it. Finally, you can save the file and close it.
9. Open the master file again. Word displays only a link the corresponding subdocument. To follow the link, just press
“Ctrl” and click on it, you will reach that subdocument.
10. Next, if you want to edit the subdocuments in the master document, just click on “Outline” again, and
then click “Show Document” button.
11. Click on “Collapse Subdocuments”. Now you can edit the subdocuments here, and then save the
changes if you want