Wasn't it Bill DeWitt who wrote:

>    Many authors use MSWord for large books, but Rick may be right that they
>don't use only one file. The outline for my book includes 32 files so far.
>Hopefully each file will become a chapter.

Back in the days when I used to have to work, I was involved in creating
the technical docs for a large bank's computer system. (ISO 9001 and all
that). In those days, MS Word 6 had a tendency to become rather sluggish
when given a really large file, and things sent much faster if the docs
were split up into quite small chapters for general processing.

When everything was written, we had a rather complicated MSWord macro
that scanned through all the separate files and did things like
sequencing the page numbers and creating the contents and index. The
macro took several hours to run on a P75, processing nearly 1000 pages
of A4 text.

The macro was quite tricky to get just right, so these days, it might be
easier to use a fairly beefy PC and (temporarily) glue all the files
together for the final pagination and indexing.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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