Combining Word Documents

[Alan Mitchell]

I currently have 2 Word documents, each with over 100
pages.

I want to create a new document by selecting various pages
from each. Essentially what I want to do is slot pages or
groups of pages from each exiting document into different
places in the new document.

The best way to decsribe this is probably like using the
Slide Sorter view in Powerpoint where I can drag
individual slides into a new presentation.

This however seems to need Word to treat each page in a
document as a seperate object abd I don't know how to do
this.

Is Word capable of this or do I need a different
application, and If so which one.

Thanks in anticipation

 

[Jezebel]

Word doesn't have an easy way to do this, largely because 'page' is not an
item in the Word object model. Word starts with the *content* -- ie the text
as a continuous range -- and maps it onto pages; where a program like
PowerPoint (or a page layout program such as PageMaker) starts with the
*pages* and adds content to them.

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

Alan,

As Jezebel indicates, this isn't really how Word is designed to work.
However, if you're not too afraid of macros, you might find some joy at
http://www.gmayor.com/copying_selected_text.htm.

Regards,
Chad

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Word doesn't have an easy way to do this, largely because 'page' is not an
item in the Word object model. Word starts with the *content* -- ie the text
as a continuous range -- and maps it onto pages; where a program like
PowerPoint (or a page layout program such as PageMaker) starts with the
*pages* and adds content to them.

Thanks Jezebel

Can I import Word files ionto PageMaker?

 

[Guest]

Chad

Thanks for your response. I am scared stiff of macros but
will give it a go. I'm also trying to see if something
like Adobe Pagemaker might help.

Regards

Alan

 

[Graham Mayor]

Nothing to be scared of - you'll also find an idiots guide to using macro
listings on my web site

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[macropod]

Hi Alan,

There's actually a fairly straightforward way of doing this with Word, using
INCLUDETEXT fields.

Say you want to import two parts of a particular source document named
'Test.doc' located in 'C:\My Documents'. In that case, select each part in
turn and bookmark it with a different name (eg Part1, Part2). Doesn't even
matter if they overlap. Save the document.

Next, in the document where you want the first bookmarked part from the
source document to appear, press Ctrl-F9 to create a pair of field braces
'{ }'. Between these, type in an INCLUDETEXT field as follows:
{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\My Documents\\Test.doc" "Part1"}

Then, press F9 to update the field. Your bookmarked text should now appear.
If it doesn't, press Alt-F9.

Repeat for the second bookmark. It's that easy. The really critical things
to remember are:
1. use double backslashes as path separators; and
2. if you change the location or name of the source document(s), you will
need to edit the field(s) to suit. You can do this by selecting an imported
field and pressing Shift-F9, or pressing Alt-F9 to expose all the fields in
the document.
3. Style definitions in your target document will override any of the same
name in the source document.

Cheers
PS: See Word's help file for more details.