Merging Word Documents

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I have 250 word 2000 documents with the same index. Can I
merge the documents and have all section 1 together, all
section 2 together etc......

Or can I import data (in memo) form from Word into Access.

Your help would be apprciated to save me lots of time as
the only way I can think of doing it is by copy and paste
to a new document.
 
The only way I can think of is to set up a VBA routine (macro).

This would depend on the 'indexes' being *exactly* the same, with the
headings in consistent format (i.e. all headings using one of the built in
Heading styles).

You could then create a macro that automatically opened each doc in turn,
found the first instance of (say) 'Introduction' in Heading style 1 and
copied all the text up to the first instance of (say) 'Topic 1' in Heading
style 1 and then pasted it at the end of a destination document.

You'll need to have a reasonable working knowledge of VBA as you won't be
able to simply record a macro to do this (I may be willing to do this for
you for a suitable fee).

You could import the doc into Access in memo format, but you'll lose all
text formatting (tabs, tables, bold, headings, etc).
 
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