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merging multiple word documents formatting problem
Hi all, I have a program which merges several word files in one. I basically
create a new empty document and using InsertFile (the same as Insert-File from Word) I insert the other documents (with a page break between them). The problem is that some formatting settings are changed. For example the left margin, the header and footer. If the second document contains some insert boxes and it has a greater margin than the first inserted document, than the second document will have its margin set at the same value as the first merged document, and thus the edit text areas will be moved to the left hiding in this way the original text. What i want is to preserve EXACTLY the formatting of each document. Any ideas and sugestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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merging multiple word documents formatting problem
Hi Cris
elven_cris wrote: Hi all, I have a program which merges several word files in one. I basically create a new empty document and using InsertFile (the same as Insert-File from Word) I insert the other documents (with a page break between them). The problem is that some formatting settings are changed. For example the left margin, the header and footer. If the second document contains some insert boxes and it has a greater margin than the first inserted document, than the second document will have its margin set at the same value as the first merged document, and thus the edit text areas will be moved to the left hiding in this way the original text. What i want is to preserve EXACTLY the formatting of each document. Then: either create the documents from scratch with the _same_ formatting (they should be based on the same template), or convert them to PDF file and concatenate the result into one PDF. Depending on version of Word you are using, you can try using the paste options (tell Word to use the source formatting), but, in general, you will never get to a really good result. Plus, the result would consist of so much direct formatting that whoever has to maintain the document after you will rather think lowly of its creator. :-) Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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