How to Split a Word Document into Multiple Documents

So you want to split a Microsoft Word document into multiple sub-documents. This can easily be achieved by applying the Heading 1 style wherever you want a new sub-document.

00:00 Introduction
00:07 Apply the Heading 1 style wherever you want to split the document
00:43 Create the sub-documents in Outline view
01:42 Expand sub-documents in the master document
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[misterwill]

😅Whew👏🏾👏🏾I can’t thank you enough! I had a huge document and the 1st video on this topic(another channel) showed this same concept, but they didn’t show the main document automatically being converted to hyperlinks, but mine did. I kept redoing the steps until finally I searched for “split large documents” again and found your video and you gave me the very cruciai missing piece of “Expand Subdocuments.” Thank you 😊I’m happy that I’m a subscriber to your channel.

[NikokhosB]

Thanks for the great tutorial! Now I need to know how to split a word document into separate files while preserving the information in headers and footers. In my documents, the header information is from a merged field and the footer information is standard across all documents. I'd greatly appreciate any help on this.

[Chitru]

It’s a very useful video . I am able to split the document. Could you please also explain if it is possible to keep same header & footer in the split document as original?

[ShimboPastory]

wow, I am glad I discovered your channel. Keep teaching us brother.

[Moomin_world]

this video saved my life, thank you! :D
You might want to add some instructions on how to unlink the subdocuments... it took me a while to figure that out, and the internet didn't really help :p

[Lavavoth]

Super useful, just what I was looking for, thank you!

[KingdomInfluenceNetwork]

You have saved my life with this tutorial

[Joomlaclass]

Dude, you saved me hours of stress. Thanks.

[sylviatt]

I follow your steps all the way till the outlining view. When I press Ctrl A to select the entire document and click on "Show Document", "Create" is grayed out. The other difference I can see between your screen and mine is that, "Collapse Subdocuments" is turned on automatically, and there is no way I can turn it off. I am not able to split the documents. What do you think could be the problem?

[dalmatina]

ah, sooo glad i ran into this i.e. finally found it. I knew there had to be a way. Thank You :)

[kgeorg]

is it possible to "unlink" the files after saving so that they don't rely on the master file being around?

[hypvcxu]

Fantastic, Chester. Thank you so much. 🙂

[ChangChang-kd]

Than you so much for your tutorials! May I know which version is your Office in the video?

[iqnill]

I'm getting an error message: "The selection does not consist of heading levels."
any ideas?

[kwanpuiliu]

HI sir. how could i also spilt pictures. for e.g. a word file including 62 fotos solely. I want to break it down into 3 word file so as to reduce its size. Thankss!~

[TheSaggarmaker]

I've followed step-by-step, but when I click Show Document, the CREATE box is grey. Any ideas? Thank you, your instructions are very

[meredithlaning]

When I split my document, it does not save the formatting, header and footer in the new ones. How can I split the documents so that it save the formatting, header, and footer so that I don't have to manually add those back in. I have a document that I need to split into 69 different documents and this would be a huge time saver!

[NekoMouser]

This is very helpful, but it stripped out all the headers and footers. Is there a way to preserve that information while doing this sort of rapid document splitting? I don't care so much if it renumbers each one, but if there was a header that read "Chapter 1: This is one title" or "Chapter 2: This is a different title, " I would want that to travel with, and still appear within, the split documents.

[zyadahmad-xx]

While splitting a Document with a Header and Footer the header and footer disappears in the separated document, kindly advice?.

[kyunglee]

Doesnt seem to work doc in sharepoint synced to onedrive...