WD: Using the Split Subdocument Icon May Create Empty Documents

 Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
Article ID: Q121108
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word for Macintosh, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

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

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  • 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. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: subdocuments sub-documents empty phantom master
document split
Keywords : macword winword word6 word7 word95 word97 kbui
Version : WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a,97;MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbworkaround

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Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
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