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Why use a master document?

Master documents are typically used for producing long documents such as a book, a

thesis, or a long report. A master document (*.ODM) joins separate text documents

(*.ODT) into one larger document, and unifies the formatting, table of contents

(TOC), bibliography, index, and other tables or lists.

A master document is especially useful in these situations:

• When graphics, spreadsheets, or other material cause the file size or number

of pages to become quite large; writing, reviewing, and editing may be easier

when done on subsets of the full document.

• When different people are writing different chapters or other parts of the full

document.

• When files will be published as stand-alone documents as well as becoming

part of a larger document. The chapters of this Writer Guide are an example of

this.

• When subdocuments are used in more than one final document.

You can use several methods to create master documents. Each method has its

advantages and disadvantages. Which method you choose depends on what you are

trying to accomplish. The different methods are described in this chapter, along with

suggestions on when to use each one.

Tip

A master document is not always the best method to use in any of the

situations given above. You may find that an ordinary document (.ODT)

containing sections linked to other files may do the job just as well. For

more about using sections to combine files, see Chapter 4 (Formatting

Pages).

Styles in master documents and subdocuments

A subdocument can be used in several master documents. Each master document

may have different style definitions (font, type size, color, page size, margins, and so

on), which affect the appearance of the final document, but the individual

subdocuments retain their original characteristics.

The relationship between styles in a master document (*.ODM) and its subdocuments

(*.ODT) is as follows:

• Custom styles used in subdocuments, such as paragraph styles, are

automatically imported into the master document.

• If more than one subdocument uses a custom style with the same name (for

example, myBodyText), then only the one in the first subdocument is imported

into the master document.

• If a style with the same name exists in the master document and in the

subdocuments (for example, Default), then the style is applied as defined in the

master document.

• The styles in the subdocuments are only changed in the master document, so

when a subdocument is opened for editing the original styles are not affected.

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