Re: IncludeText gives Error! Not a valid filename on 'refresh'

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From: Margaret Aldis (Margaret.Aldis_at_mvps.(SpamStopper)org.invalid)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:16:21 -0000

Are all the documents in the same directory? Are you saving copies somewhere
else? You haven't included a full path and Word works relative to the
'current directory' - this usually has a default of MyDocuments or similar,
but changes while you work to wherever you last opened or saved a file. It
is not necessarily the directory where the document you are currently
working on resides! 

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Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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"Lynn Allan" <l_d_allan@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:eLhScq0GFHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Using Word2003. Not a Word expert.
>
> I'm preparing a series of bifold, duplex booklets that share a lot of
> common pages. The full 'master' is 40 pages, and there are 4 page, 8
> page, 16 page, 20 page, 28 page variations that are a subset of the 40
> page master.
>
> This seems like a good usage of IncludeText, and it "sort of" works.
> Below is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish.
>
> Page01.doc thru Page40.doc
>
> IncluderOfFourPages.doc has:
> { INCLUDETEXT "Page01.doc" }
> { INCLUDETEXT "Page11.doc" }
> { INCLUDETEXT "Page21.doc" }
> { INCLUDETEXT "Page31.doc" }
>
> The problem is when I "refresh" the "master" with Ctrl-A and F9, I'm
> getting
> Error! Not a valid filename
> for some or all of the references.
>
> It seems to work at least once when I build up the subpages initially.
> Eventually, I start getting the Error! message as if it is corrupted.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Leaving out a step? Is there something
> with the booket that confuses Word-2003? It is quite close to working,
> but frustrating.
>
> A year or so ago, I was working on a similar project, and it seems
> like there was a "magic step" involved to get the "refresh" to work ok
> ... but I can't remember what it was. I would encounter the above
> "Error! Not a valid filename" and it seemed there was something I
> could do to fix it so the "refresh" would work ok. Can't recall what
> it was. ???
>
>
>

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