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Creating a master document

The three most common scenarios for creating a master document

depend on the current state of your document:

• You have one existing document (a book) that you want to split

into several subdocuments (chapters) that will be controlled by

the master document.

• You have several existing documents (chapters) by one or more

authors that you want to combine into one book, controlled by the

master document.

• You have no existing documents but intend to write a long book

containing several chapters, possibly by multiple authors.

We will look at each of these scenarios in turn.

Splitting one document into a master document

and subdocuments

When you have one existing document that you want to split into

several subdocuments that will be controlled by the master document,

you can split the document automatically.

Use this method if the original document uses only the

Default

page

style, is numbered sequentially from the first page, and uses the

Heading 1

style to identify the start of each chapter. In these

conditions, this method will work well.

Advantages: This method is quick and easy, and any existing cross-

references between chapters are preserved. Although cleanup work

may be necessary, once you have done the cleanup, the document will

behave itself.

Disadvantages: If the original document was complex, you may have

major cleanup work to do because some formatting will be lost—for

example, page styles, page breaks, restarted page numbering.

How to do it: Open the document and click File > Send > Create

Master Document to split the document. You will find that each of the

subdocuments begins with a

Heading 1

and the file names are all

maindocnameX.odt

, where X is 1, 2, 3, and so on. If you have a Preface

or other “chapter” starting with a Heading 1 before Chapter 1, the file

names will not directly correspond to the chapter numbers.

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