[Aaron...]

This is my first post, so thanks in advance for your help...

Firstly, I'm using word 2007.

I have in excess of 40 documents to merge into one, and create a table of
contents.

each of the original documents has different formatting, orientations and
margins. to make things more difficult some use different font styles. the
numbering on the font styles has been removed on the original files but when
I "insert" "text from file" I lose the original formatting and the numbering
on the font styles re-appears on the new document.

the inserted text (and tables) now spill over to the next page, even though
they did not on the original document.

so, two things:
how do I merge many documents and keep their formatting?
how do I easily remove the numbers in front of text that has had a style
attributed to it?

Thanks for your help.......