merging office documents

[thaar]

Dear all

i want to merge serverl office 2007 documents into single one. each doc has
a specific header which i want to remain intact in the merged final document.
I know how to merge.

1. Click Insert option in the Office Fluent Ribbon menu bar
2. Click on the Down arrow at the right side of Object.
3. Select Text from File… option. ...etc.

this procedure is OK but the header becomes the same as the first document,
and this is the problem.

how can i make all individual documents preserve its header in the final
document and without header and page number for each first page in that
document .

best regards
thaar

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Put a Section Break at the end of the document before you insert the next
one and unlink the headers and footers in that section from those in the
previous Section.

Or alternatively (and this may work better), insert a next page section
break at the beginning of each document before inserting it and unlink the
header in the section containing the text from that in the section before
it.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[thaar]

Dear Doug Robbins
thanks for your help.

how can i unlink the headers and footers in that section from those in the
previous Section?
i am thinking to link the header of each document to its title before
merging, but iam not tested yet.

best regards
thaar

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

When you access the Header or Footer area of a document, the Header & Footer
Tools Design tab will be added to the Ribbon and in the Navigation section
of that tab of the ribbon, there is a "Link to Previous" button that will
appear with an orange back ground if the header/footer in the current
section is linked to that in the previous one. Clicking on that button
toggles the link on and off.

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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

 

[thaar]

Greate thanks Doug, it is Ok.

but when i used section break, some of header parameters such as spaces are
changed but the header titles are not changed. Can you help me in this issue.

best regards
thaar

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless you have used a StyleRef field, you have to manually change the
content of the headers.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org