Using MS Word master / sub documents feature

There are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt soon.
       John McGie

MS Word: keep tables on one page

Page breaks are an annoyance in word. Whenever you update your document they shift and mess up your layout.
Easily to avoid this by using the paragraph properties keep with next & keep lines together (and I don't know why these do not appear in the ribbon for east access).
But for some reason I never got tables to work with this.
Easy enough to select the table with the little cross in the left top that appears on hovering and setting the paragraph properties, but they did not take effect.
In a document with many small tables they kept on splitting across pages, and I had to revert to page breaks.
The solution: you have to make sure that in the table properties Text Wrapping is set to None. Now all is well!

MS Word: changing individual bullets

Managing lists has always been a pain in MS Word.
My most recent issue: whenever you change an item in a list in MS Word 2007, the whole list tends to change along and you see the dreaded lightning icon, indication MS Word did more than you asked:

Sometimes you don't want that, e.g.  i could use different bullets within a list level to convey a special meaning:

This tip gave me a solution: If you only want to change one item in the list, select the end of paragraph mark of the item (supposing you have enabled displaying these) and then change the bullet. Your modification will be limited to this one bullet.