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WD: Using the Split Subdocument Icon May Create Empty Documents

Article ID: 121108

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2007


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SYMPTOMS

  • No subdocument is created when you choose the Create Subdocument icon and the active document is a one-paragraph document. -or-

  • Empty or "phantom" subdocuments appear in newly opened master documents. These documents are often saved as M.DOC or M#.DOC, where # represents a number starting at 1.

WORKAROUND

Click the subdocument icon, and then press DELETE to remove any empty subdocuments.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Word listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: subdocuments sub-documents empty phantom master document split

Keywords: kbbug kbpending kbui KB121108