What kind of formatting are you trying to keep?

For headers and footers, margins, etc, the key is section breaks. See here
for an explanation and a fix.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ectionInfo.htm

If you mean text formatting, see he
http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/F...xtChanges.html


On 9/9/05 8:35 AM, "JDIH" wrote:

If I import a word file into a new document it takes on the format of the new
document - how do it keep the old files original format. I want to tage a
previous document on to the end of a new document.

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