how do I attach different documents to a source document

[Guest]

I have a Word Document (Office 2007) and two other documents (one PDF and one
Word) that I wish to attach to the main document. As both documents are
large i don't want to copy and paste them. Is there a way that i can get the
documents attached to the main document

 

[Summer]

Outlook sends groups of documents (otherwise known as attachments)!

 

[Guest]

Thanks. But the issue is not attaching them in Outlook it is really about
merging (perhaps that is the right word) the three documents into one
document for presentation purposes so that when I email it to my client they
don't have to open three different documents.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The most satisfactory way to do this (because it doesn't present formatting
issues) is to PDF all three documents and combine them in Acrobat.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Many thanks. I assume that I would need to purchase Acrobat to do that as I
currently only have Adobe Reader. Alternatively, I suppose that I could
print them out and scan them and save as a PDF file but given there are about
70 pages that might take some time for my printer/scanner. Any thoughts?
Cheers

 

[Graham Mayor]

Yes, you would need the full (expensive) version of Acrobat to combine
PDFs - though you could use a cheaper PDF tool to simply create them (eg
PrimoPDF).

PDF files are a type of multi-page graphic that are intended as finished
copy (much like a print-out) and are not designed to be edited.

Word has no ability to display multi-page graphics. If you have Acrobat
reader from version 7 onwards, you can insert PDF objects in Word, but only
the first page will be displayed.

For a one-off you could send me the documents and I would combine them for
you, but as you will no doubt encounter this again in the course of your
business, Acrobat would seem to be a fully justified business expense.
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[Daiya Mitchell]

PrimoPDF says New! Ability to merge PDF files upon conversion.
http://www.primopdf.com/

Googling for Merge PDF brings up references to other programs which will
merge PDFs. I'm not recommending anything, as I don't even use Windows,
but there are options other than Acrobat to combine PDFs, apparently.
Not sure how things like page numbering work.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When people want to "combine" or "append" documents this way, usually they
want to preserve the formatting (including page numbering) in the original
documents, which is why they don't want to combine them in Word. Office
Binder, I'm told, was a good way to do this, but alas! it is not offered
with Office any more.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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