Assembled cognoscenti ; I have a 'literary project', which resembles a book; in that I have decided to approach it, as a number of modules, each consisting of one StarOffice document, .odt format. Apparently there is some kind of meta-document called a 'master-file'; ( the same nomenclature seems to exist in LibreOffice and OpenOffice) which seems to be just a file of links to the component documents; so far so good. Problem is the result thus far, (after extensive consultation with the relevant help-files and googling), is litttle better than concatenating the individual documents. -' chapters' don't start on odd pages or even at top of page and - 'chapter' headers (originally the document headers) get completely lost ! I don't regret my original decision, because it isolates the layout of each document and thus reduces work. Probably the same result can be achieved in a single document; if one is much more proficient at 'driving' word processors than myself, but I would prefer to continue with this approach for the time being. So has anyone done something similar with greater success ? thanks Rohan McLeod