Linux Journal: Ooo Off the Wall: Master Documents | Linux Today

Linux Journal: Ooo Off the Wall: Master Documents

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Bruce Byfield
Dec 15, 2005

“If you are an MS Word user, and we all have secret shames in
our pasts, you may have fallen into the habit of avoiding master
documents–and for good reason. Master documents in MS Word can
crash and corrupt sub-documents unless they are used so carefully
that there is hardly any reason to use them at all.

“But if you have this habit of avoiding master documents, you
can change it when you use OpenOffice.org Writer. Master documents
in Writer are much more stable…”

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