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Rename a subdocument

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

 
  1. On the View menu, click Outline.
  2. If the subdocuments are expanded, click Collapse Subdocuments Button image on the Outlining toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.).
  3. Press CTRL and click the hyperlink (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.) of the subdocument you want to rename.
  4. On the File menu, click Save As.
  5. Enter a new file name or location for the subdocument, and then click Save.
  6. To close the subdocument and return to the master document (master document: A "container" for a set of separate files (or subdocuments). You can use a master document to set up and manage a multipart document, such as a book with several chapters.), click Close on the File menu.
  7. Save and close the master document.

 Note   When you rename a subdocument, the previous version of the subdocument file remains in its original location. If you want, you can delete this subdocument file.