There are times when you want to focus on a particular part of a document. At such times, it helps to hide other contents in the document, and here is where the ability to collapse or expand content in a document helps. Microsoft Word allows you hide and display (collapse and expand) parts of a document using heading styles.
Microsoft Word Tips
Tips and tricks that will help you leverage the often overlooked features of Microsoft Word to improve the quality of your documents.
In this post, we look at how we can create subdocuments from an existing Microsoft Word document. The original document will then act as the master document.
In the earlier post, we saw how to create a master document by linking various subdocuments to it. In this post we will see how to work with subdocuments including hiding/displaying contents as well as merging and locking subdocuments.
By using Master and subdocuments in Microsoft Word, you can collaborate easily. Individual writers work on their documents (called subdocuments), which are then linked to a master document to create the complete document. Any changes made to the subdocument automatically reflect in the master.
As technical writers, we often have graphics or text that we need to reuse within a document or across documents.…