Do you create really long documents in Word? If so, you probably know that Word doesn’t always play well with them. It’s usually smarter to split your long documents into multiple Word files.

您是否在Word中创建了很长的文档？ 如果是这样，您可能知道Word并不总是能与它们很好地配合使用。 将长文档拆分为多个Word文件通常更聪明。

But, then, how do you make sure the pages are numbered correctly and easily create a table of contents and an index for the whole document? That’s where Word’s master document feature can help. It allows you to combine multiple Word files into a single Word file.

但是，然后，如何确保页面编号正确并轻松地为整个文档创建目录和索引呢？ 这就是Word的主文档功能可以提供帮助的地方。 它使您可以将多个Word文件合并为一个Word文件。

A master document is a Word file that contains links to a set of other, separate Word files, called subdocuments. The content of the subdocuments is not inserted into the master document. The master document only contains links to the subdocuments. This allows you to edit the subdocuments separately. Any changes made to subdocuments are incorporated into the master document automatically. If there are multiple people working on a single document, a master document allows you to send different parts of the document to different people to work on.

主文档是一个Word文件，其中包含指向一组其他单独的Word文件(称为子文档)的链接。 子文档的内容未插入主文档中。 主文档仅包含子文档的链接。 这使您可以分别编辑子文档。 对子文档所做的任何更改都会自动合并到主文档中。 如果在一个文档上有多个人员，则主文档可让您将文档的不同部分发送给不同的人员进行处理。

In this article, we show you the basics of creating a master document  and subdocuments from scratch, and creating a master document from existing subdocuments. We also show you how to easily add a table of contents to the beginning of the master document.

在本文中，我们向您展示了从头开始创建主文档和子文档以及从现有子文档创建主文档的基础。 我们还将向您展示如何轻松地将目录添加到主文档的开头。

从头开始创建主文档 (Create a Master Document from Scratch)

If you are starting a fresh master document with no existing subdocuments, you can create one from scratch. To do so, create a new, blank Word document and save it, indicating in the file name that it is a master document.

如果要在没有现有子文档的情况下启动一个新的主文档，则可以从头开始创建一个。 为此，创建一个新的空白Word文档并保存它，并在文件名中指示它是主文档。

Once you have saved your master document file, click the View tab and click Outline in the Document Views section of the tab.

保存主文档文件后，单击“视图”选项卡，然后在该选项卡的“文档视图”部分中单击“大纲”。

Start entering the headings for your document in outline form, using the drop-down list of Level styles and the green right and left arrows in the Outline Tools section of the Outlining tab to change the levels of your headings.

使用“级别”样式的下拉列表以及“大纲”选项卡的“大纲工具”部分中的绿色右箭头和左箭头，以大纲形式开始输入文档的标题，以更改标题的级别。

When you have entered all the headings you want, click Show Document in the Master Document section of the Outlining tab.

输入所需的所有标题后，单击“大纲”选项卡的“主文档”部分中的“显示文档”。

More options become available in the Master Document section of the Outlining tab. Select the entire outline in the document and click Create.

“概述”选项卡的“主文档”部分中提供了更多选项。 在文档中选择整个轮廓，然后单击“创建”。

Clicking Create encloses each document in its own box. Save the master document file again at this point.

单击创建将每个文档都包含在其自己的框中。 此时再次保存主文档文件。

Each box in the master document becomes a separate file, as shown below. The name of the first heading in each box in the master document is used as the filename for each subdocument file.

主文档中的每个框都变成一个单独的文件，如下所示。 主文档中每个框中的第一个标题的名称用作每个子文档文件的文件名。

To go back to the previous view, such as Print Layout, click Close Outline View in the Close section on the Outlining tab.

若要返回到上一个视图(如“打印版式”)，请在“大纲”选项卡的“关闭”部分中单击“关闭轮廓视图”。

To add a table of contents to your master document, put the cursor at the beginning of the document and click the References tab. Click the Table of Contents drop-down button in the Table of Contents section. Select one of the Automatic Table options to insert an automatically generated table of contents at the insertion point.

要将目录添加到主文档中，请将光标放在文档的开头，然后单击“引用”选项卡。 单击“目录”部分中的“目录”下拉按钮。 选择“自动表”选项之一，以在插入点插入自动生成的目录。

To see the section breaks inserted by Word when you created the subdocuments, click the Home tab and click the paragraph symbol button in the Paragraph section.

若要查看在创建子文档时Word插入的分节符，请单击“主页”选项卡，然后单击“段落”部分中的段落符号按钮。

Word displays the section breaks and what types they are.

Word将显示分节符和它们是什么类型。

NOTE: When you create a master document from scratch, Word inserts a continuous section break before and after each subdocument you create. This means there are no page breaks in your document. You can easily change the type of each section break.

注意：当您从头开始创建主文档时，Word会在您创建的每个子文档前后插入一个连续的分节符。 这意味着您的文档中没有分页符。 您可以轻松更改每个分节符的类型 。

The following image shows how your document looks in outline mode with the subdocuments showing expanded.

下图显示了文档在大纲模式下的外观，子文档显示为展开状态。

使用现有的Word文件创建主文档 (Create a Master Document Using Existing Word Files)

If you have some existing documents you want to include in a master document, you can create a new master document file and insert the existing documents as subdocuments. To do this, create a new, blank Word document and save it like we mentioned earlier when creating a master document from scratch.

如果有一些现有文档要包含在主文档中，则可以创建一个新的主文档文件并将现有文档作为子文档插入。 为此，创建一个新的空白Word文档，然后像从前创建主文档时提到的那样保存它。

Click the View tab and then click Outline in the Document Views section. The Outlining tab becomes available and active. Click Show Document in the Master Document section to activate additional options. To add a subdocument to the master document, click Insert.

单击视图选项卡，然后在文档视图部分中单击大纲。 “概述”选项卡变为可用并处于活动状态。 单击“主文档”部分中的“显示文档”以激活其他选项。 要将子文档添加到主文档中，请单击“插入”。

On the Insert Subdocument dialog box, navigate to the location of the documents you want to insert. Select the first file and click Open.

在“插入子文档”对话框上，导航到要插入的文档的位置。 选择第一个文件，然后单击“打开”。

NOTE: It might be easier if you store your subdocument files in the same directory as your master document file.

注意：如果将子文档文件存储在与主文档文件相同的目录中，则可能会更容易。

If the following dialog box displays, telling you about a style that exists in both the subdocument and the master document, click the Yes to All button. This keeps all the styles in the subdocument consistent with the styles in the master document.

如果显示以下对话框，告诉您子文档和主文档中都存在一种样式，请单击“全部同意”按钮。 这样可以使子文档中的所有样式与主文档中的样式保持一致。

Repeat the steps for inserting subdocuments for each of the documents you want to include in your master document. When you are finished, you can collapse the subdocuments, if desired. To do this, click Collapse Subdocuments in the Master Document section of the Outlining tab.

重复步骤，为要包含在主文档中的每个文档插入子文档。 完成后，可以根据需要折叠子文档。 为此，请在“大纲”选项卡的“主文档”部分中单击“折叠子文档”。

You must save your document to collapse the subdocuments, so the following dialog box displays if you haven’t done so. Click OK to save the document.

您必须保存文档以折叠子文档，因此，如果未这样做，则会显示以下对话框。 单击确定以保存文档。

Notice that the full path to each of your subdocument files display in each subdocument box. To open a subdocument for editing you can either double-click the document symbol in the upper, left corner of the subdocument box, or Ctrl + Click the link to the file.

请注意，每个子文档文件的完整路径都显示在每个子文档框中。 要打开子文档进行编辑，您可以双击子文档框左上角的文档符号，或按Ctrl +单击指向文件的链接。

NOTE: When you import existing Word files into a master document file, Word inserts a next page section break before and a continuous section break after each subdocument. Again, you can easily change the type of each section break, if needed.

注意：当您将现有的Word文件导入到主文档文件时，Word会在每个子文档之前插入下一页分节符，并在其后插入连续的分节符。 同样，您可以根据需要轻松更改每个分节符的类型 。

To view the master document in a non-outline view, click the View tab, and click Print Layout or other view type in the Document Views section.

要以非大纲视图查看主文档，请单击“视图”选项卡，然后在“文档视图”部分中单击“打印布局”或其他视图类型。

You can add a table of contents in the same way we mentioned above when creating a master document and subdocuments from scratch.

您可以从头开始创建主文档和子文档时，以与上述相同的方式添加目录。

Once you have included all the subdocuments in the master document, you can add or edit headers and footers, create the table of contents (as we illustrated), create an index, and work on other parts of the document that are common to the whole document.

一旦将所有子文档都包含在主文档中，就可以添加或编辑页眉和页脚，创建目录(如我们所说明的)， 创建索引以及处理整个文档共有的其他部分文件。

For both methods discussed in this article for creating master documents, when you edit a document included in a master document, the content for that subdocument is updated in the master document.

对于本文中讨论的两种创建主文档的方法，当您编辑主文档中包含的文档时，该子文档的内容都会在主文档中更新。

Master documents in earlier versions of Word sometimes corrupted the documents. You may encounter this problem in Word 2010. See the Microsoft Answers site for more information.

Word的早期版本中的主控文档有时会损坏文档。 您可能在Word 2010中遇到此问题。有关详细信息，请参阅Microsoft Answers网站 。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/73960/create-a-master-document-in-word-2010-from-multiple-documents/