How do I combine 35 separate Word documents into one

[Guest]

I have 35 chapters and alltogether about 500 pages. But each chapter is a
separate Word Document and unfortunately I formatted every chapter manually.
Now, I want to combine them into a book, that is, one document with an
index. So iwhen I click on chapter 5 for example, chapter 5 opens. First of
all, is there a recommended way to combine all these into one, apart from
copying and pasting.

 

[Guest]

If you can keep your documents separate (ie each one is a different chapter),
then you can do a table of contents in a separate word file with docref
fields. I'm not familiar with indexing over multiple documents, but it can
probably be done.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The field in question is the RD field; see "Creating a Table of Contents
Spanning Multiple Documents" at
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

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

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could use Insert | File, but that can be a bit tedious. Try the
Boiler.dot add-in available (as Boiler.zip) from Graham Mayor's downloads
page: http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm

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

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[Guest]

If you can keep your documents separate (ie each one is a different chapter),
then you can do a table of contents in a separate word file with docref
fields. I'm not familiar with indexing over multiple documents, but it can
probably be done.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.