Unable to cross reference between subdocuments

Question

Hi,

As far as I can find, it seems that to cross reference between documents I would have to use a master document and should be able to reference between the subdocuments.

However when I try to do this it will not add the cross reference if it points to a different subdocument but will add it fine if it is within that same subdocument where it is being added. I can see all the headings and paragraphs listed when I try to add a cross reference but clicking insert does nothing, no field is being created. 

Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong here? Or have a better solution for this? I am mainly after the automatically generated number for the heading so that it is simpler for me to move things around and have the numbers update automatically.

Cheers

Answer 1

Which citation software?

When this "feature" was introduced, the maximum size for a document was much smaller than it is now. Word can handle documents of the size you relate.

Something that can slow things down a lot, is a small amount of RAM, working physical memory. Is your computer fitted with the maximum amount of RAM it will handle? Most, these days, will handle at least 16Gb. If yours is running with 4 Gb, most of that is being used by Windows, I believe.

Answer 2

What is the total size of all of the subdocuments?  

The master\subdicuments feature in Word has always been quite unreliable and should be avoided.

Answer 3

Hi

I agree with Doug that the Master Documnet feature should be avoided.

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This feature was added to Word back when Wordperfect was the market leader and had such a feature that worked and worked well. In Word, it has always been problematic. Since then, the ability of Word to handle very large documents has greatly increased but the Master Document feature remains flawed.

There are alternatives if you actually do need your document split into separate files.

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

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Regards

Answer 4

Total is roughly 23.7MB, one is 23.6MB and the other is only 40kB, that said if it works I expect to add another 2 documents in the range of 10-20MB.

I see, is the best option to just combine everything into a large document? Other students that have done similar work had issues with the super large file that results in the end, in particular some fields added by citation software gets sluggish and sometimes buggy.