Concatenate multiple docs into one and maintain original headers/footers

[Mark Parent]

I'm trying to concatenate a number of Word docs into a
single document, and can certainly link, imbed or
copy/paste everything that I need into one document, but
I have a problem. Each of the original docs has unique
headers/footers, and I'd like to keep these in the
concatenated version. However I concatenate the data,
the subsequent docs always inherit the header/footer from
the first doc.

How can I concatenate these documents together, and
maintain the header/footer from the originals ?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Mark,

This requires section breaks between each document with
differing headers, footers, page orientation, etc. The
easiest way to achieve this is to let Word do the work for
you, by using the Master Document feature. Note, however,
that you should only use this to pull the documents
together. Once they've been inserted, use the "Remove
Sub-document" button to break the links to the original
files.

I'm trying to concatenate a number of Word docs into a
single document, and can certainly link, imbed or
copy/paste everything that I need into one document, but
I have a problem. Each of the original docs has unique
headers/footers, and I'd like to keep these in the
concatenated version. However I concatenate the data,
the subsequent docs always inherit the header/footer from
the first doc.

How can I concatenate these documents together, and
maintain the header/footer from the originals ?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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