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Figure 377: Breaking links to include files in one document
6) After breaking the links, you may wish to also remove some or all
of the sections. To do that, go to Format > Sections, select the
sections you wish to remove, and click Remove. The contents of
those sections remain in the document; only the section markers
are removed.
Tip
The Help does not mention steps 4 and 5 above, giving only
the step for removing the sections. If you have no hidden
sections, that technique works fine and is faster; however, if
you want to break the links but retain some or all of the
sections (particularly hidden sections), then the method
described in this chapter is safer.
Problem solving
Some combinations of choices do not work together. This section
describes some problems and what to do about them.
Including a chapter reference in the header of the
first page
The problem
If you use the method described in “Step 5. Insert the subdocuments
into the master document” beginning on page 422 (putting a page
break paragraph into the master document between the
subdocuments), and you put a cross-reference to the chapter name
and number in the header of the first page of each chapter, then the
cross-reference field on the first page will pick up the chapter name
and number from the previous chapter. This happens because with this
method the first (blank) paragraph on those pages is actually the last
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