On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:33:45 -0600, "Ricki Miles" wrote:
I am working in Word 2003. I have over one thousand separate documents of
one or two pages of text each. There are no graphics, tables, etc. What is
the best way to combine them into a book consisting of one document? I
don't want to use Master Document as I know it has many problems. I am
thinking of using Insert File and making the formatting all the same. Any
other suggestions?
TIA
Ricki
Not really a separate suggestion, but building on what you're already
thinking...
Do you want each inserted document to start on a new page? There are a couple of
ways to do that. The best, if each document starts with a heading formatted with
the same style, is to add "Page break before" paragraph formatting to the
definition of that style in the final document. The alternative is to insert a
New Page section break between documents as you add them.
If you have a list of the file names of the separate documents, in the order
that they should appear, then a macro could take that list as input and create
the consolidated document. (If the documents aren't all on one folder, the list
would have to include the full path to each one.) This would be a lot faster
than building it by hand.
If the documents were all based on the same template and use the same style
definitions, you shouldn't have any problems with formatting. If there could be
styles with the same names but different sets of properties in different
documents, though, you may run into trouble. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html for the
considerations.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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