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All -- thanks for the great ideas. Judith's solution is indeed interesting and clever, but I'm probably going to go with some form of Hans' idea. Thanks again, though, to all of you.

Bruce Watson

Phil -- I think she meant that you'd change the SEQ fields in the sub-doc, then get the SEQs to update and save the sub-doc. Then you'd generate the Getting Started doc. When it's done, you'd go back...

Here I am again, humbly asking advice on what appears to me as a sticky problem. My question today is how to update SEQ fields in an included document without refreshing the full included document.
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Phil -- thanks for the reply. It gave me some interesting things to think about.

Bruce Watson

Hans -- right on again. I deleted "* MERGEFORMAT" from one of the more troublesome includetext fields, and now it comes into the master document correctly formatted. Now I'm going to apply this idea...

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Hans -- thanks again for your response. Since these direct formatting items appear in the style list, I assumed they were styles.

Bruce

Hans -- thanks for the welcome and the reply. Your suggestion seems like the thing to do, but when I went to try it, I found that this field already *was* turned off. Does that tell you anything?

I just replaced Word 2002 with 2003, and I can't remember how I had turned off one of Word's annoying "features." Say I have a style called "Body text". As I'm typing text in that style, I hit...