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Combining separate Word documents into one document
Hi,
I'm trying to find a way to easily combine several (many) MS Word (2003) documents into a single document. The catch is that I need to be able to maintain the original formatting of each individual document in the main document. I have many wide and varied formats (portrait, landscape, varied margins and styles, etc.), so simply combining them doesn't work. Normally, we convert the documents to PDF and then combine them, which is much easier, but we have a client that wants a combined Word version of this document. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Frank |
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Combining separate Word documents into one document
Download boiler.zip from Graham Mayor's site. This utility/macro lets you
chose which files you want to combine. Chose the option the add new documents following a section break, next page which should enable you to insert each document and keep its format. However, I am unsure how it will handle portrait/landscape combinations, but give it a test. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Phrank" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm trying to find a way to easily combine several (many) MS Word (2003) documents into a single document. The catch is that I need to be able to maintain the original formatting of each individual document in the main document. I have many wide and varied formats (portrait, landscape, varied margins and styles, etc.), so simply combining them doesn't work. Normally, we convert the documents to PDF and then combine them, which is much easier, but we have a client that wants a combined Word version of this document. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Frank |
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Hi Terry,
We do already extensively use this awesome utility; however, as you noted, it doesn't handle the portrait/landscape combinations well. I understand that MS Word is just not designed for something like this, but when one is trying to be responsive to customers' requests, one looks in every nook and crany to find a solution - especially in these economic times. I'll look deeper into the boiler macro to see if we can do something. Thanks Terry. Frank On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Download boiler.zip from Graham Mayor's site. This utility/macro lets you chose which files you want to combine. Chose the option the add new documents following a section break, next page which should enable you to insert each document and keep its format. However, I am unsure how it will handle portrait/landscape combinations, but give it a test. |
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Combining separate Word documents into one document
It would be a simple matter to come up with a macro that can handle the
variations that you mention. It probably just requires the insertion of a Next Page Section Break at the end of the each inserted document before the next one is inserted after it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Phrank" wrote in message ... Hi Terry, We do already extensively use this awesome utility; however, as you noted, it doesn't handle the portrait/landscape combinations well. I understand that MS Word is just not designed for something like this, but when one is trying to be responsive to customers' requests, one looks in every nook and crany to find a solution - especially in these economic times. I'll look deeper into the boiler macro to see if we can do something. Thanks Terry. Frank On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Download boiler.zip from Graham Mayor's site. This utility/macro lets you chose which files you want to combine. Chose the option the add new documents following a section break, next page which should enable you to insert each document and keep its format. However, I am unsure how it will handle portrait/landscape combinations, but give it a test. |
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Combining separate Word documents into one document
The boiler.dot macro does indeed insert a next page section break between
documents (if the option on the userform is checked), but there are limits to what Word can do in a single document with disparate documents based on a variety of templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com wrote: It would be a simple matter to come up with a macro that can handle the variations that you mention. It probably just requires the insertion of a Next Page Section Break at the end of the each inserted document before the next one is inserted after it. "Phrank" wrote in message ... Hi Terry, We do already extensively use this awesome utility; however, as you noted, it doesn't handle the portrait/landscape combinations well. I understand that MS Word is just not designed for something like this, but when one is trying to be responsive to customers' requests, one looks in every nook and crany to find a solution - especially in these economic times. I'll look deeper into the boiler macro to see if we can do something. Thanks Terry. Frank On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Download boiler.zip from Graham Mayor's site. This utility/macro lets you chose which files you want to combine. Chose the option the add new documents following a section break, next page which should enable you to insert each document and keep its format. However, I am unsure how it will handle portrait/landscape combinations, but give it a test. |
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Combining separate Word documents into one document
You will also find that printers don't handle portrait/landscape on a single
sheet of paper when duplex printing. So combining even manually when documents are mixed orientation is always going to be a problem. Terry Farrell "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The boiler.dot macro does indeed insert a next page section break between documents (if the option on the userform is checked), but there are limits to what Word can do in a single document with disparate documents based on a variety of templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com wrote: It would be a simple matter to come up with a macro that can handle the variations that you mention. It probably just requires the insertion of a Next Page Section Break at the end of the each inserted document before the next one is inserted after it. "Phrank" wrote in message ... Hi Terry, We do already extensively use this awesome utility; however, as you noted, it doesn't handle the portrait/landscape combinations well. I understand that MS Word is just not designed for something like this, but when one is trying to be responsive to customers' requests, one looks in every nook and crany to find a solution - especially in these economic times. I'll look deeper into the boiler macro to see if we can do something. Thanks Terry. Frank On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: Download boiler.zip from Graham Mayor's site. This utility/macro lets you chose which files you want to combine. Chose the option the add new documents following a section break, next page which should enable you to insert each document and keep its format. However, I am unsure how it will handle portrait/landscape combinations, but give it a test. |
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Combining separate Word documents into one document
Thanks everyone for the input. It's pretty much as I thought, that we
would use the Boiler macro and then have to go back and fix what didn't combine appropriately. The Boiler macro at least gets us a lot closer. Thanks again. Frank On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:16:15 +0200, "Graham Mayor" wrote: The boiler.dot macro does indeed insert a next page section break between documents (if the option on the userform is checked), but there are limits to what Word can do in a single document with disparate documents based on a variety of templates. |
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