6.7. Master Documents

In the beginning, there was Word 5.1. It had fonts, sizes, styles, tables, and graphics.

But the people weren't satisfied. They wanted to bind together many different chapter documents into a single, unified book. They wanted to knit together files written by multiple authors who had edited their respective sections simultaneously on the network. They wanted to print, spell-check, or search-and-replace across dozens of different Word files at once; or generate tables of contents, indexes, and cross-references for all component Word files at once.