Insert a Page

[obs]

I have several co-workers who SWEAR that they used to be able to insert a
single page from another file in a previous version of Word. They can not
find such a command in Word 2007 and I don't believe that it ever existed.
Did it exist and does it still? If so, where would one find such a command?

Thanks!

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have several co-workers who SWEAR that they used to be able to
insert a single page from another file in a previous version of Word.
They can not find such a command in Word 2007 and I don't believe
that it ever existed. Did it exist and does it still? If so, where
would one find such a command?

Thanks!

If the other file is only one page, click the down arrow next to the Object
button near the right end of the Insert ribbon and choose Text from File,
then select the file in the dialog and click OK.

If the other file has multiple pages, first you have to insert a bookmark in
that file to single out the page you want. Then, after selecting the file in
the Insert File dialog, click the Range button and type in the bookmark's
name.

You can get a similar result by inserting an IncludeText field (through
Insert > Quick Parts > Field > IncludeText). Again, if the proper page is
bookmarked in a longer document, include the bookmark name after the
filename in the field code.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[obs]

Thanks, Jay - that's a great workaround and I'll pass that on. However, I
would really like to know if such a menu item/command ever existed and if so,
where would it have been. They claim that it used to read Insert Page From
File.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I've been using Word since v. 2.0, and I've never seen such an option.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I've never seen it, either.

For that matter, the way Word treats pages as something to be recomputed on the
fly (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm), I don't see how
such a command could ever exist. You'd have no assurance that what you thought
was on, say, page 10 would actually be in the inserted text. At least with a
bookmark you always know where it begins and ends.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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