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[500 points] help me to join several word documents into one word document with out effecting format

Asked by: malli143

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I am in need of your help.
I have 800 single page word documents. I want join all these documents into one document with out loosing the formating. Final document should be editable

I tried copy paste but when paste the new page the whole formating is getting disturbed

Kindly help me.. I am in urgent need

Thanks in advance
Malli

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2006-09-11 at 01:08:36ID21984522
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by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2006-09-11 at 01:59:42ID: 17492634

You could put the cursor at the end of the document and, from the menu, do Insert/File.
If there are different Page Set-ups (margins, orientation, etc), you could insert a section break at the end first, and insert the file after that.

 

by: malli143Posted on 2006-09-11 at 02:51:36ID: 17492924

Hi
Thanks for the reply

I have different Page Set-ups (margins, orientation, etc),
PLease explain how do i  insert a " section break" at the end of the page

REgards
Chandu

 

by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2006-09-11 at 03:03:51ID: 17493004

At the end of the document, actually. I didn't make that clear.
Do Ctrl+End to put the cursor at the end of the document. Then, from the menu, choose Insert/Break... and select Next page from the Section break types. Then choose Insert/File... and browse for the first file that you want bring in. Repeat for each file. It might help to show the formatting marks using the pilcrow (¶) buttonm.

 

by: dmangPosted on 2006-09-11 at 12:04:27ID: 17496959

Since you have 800 documents, you may want to consider some automation for this task.  
Is there a particular document sequence you're looking for?

If not, you can combine all docs into a single folder and then loop through the folder copy trhe contents of each into the main document with a section break between each.

If there is a sequence, you can prsent the list of documents in a userform list and pick and choose tyour way through. Each time you choose a doc from the list, it can be added to the main doc, again with section breaks.
dm

 

by: malli143Posted on 2006-09-12 at 03:06:01ID: 17501130

HI
Dmang

Thanks for the comments
Are there such kind of tool available on the net

Please give me the links ...i would be grateful to you

Regards
Malli

 

by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2006-09-12 at 03:19:28ID: 17501185

You could use this VBA code:

Sub JoinDocs()
    Dim doc As Document
    Dim strFolder As String
    Dim strFile As String
    Dim rng As Range
    Set doc = Documents.Add
    strFolder = "C:\MyFolder"
    strFile = Dir$(strFolder & "\*.doc")
    Do Until strFile = ""
        Set rng = doc.Range
        rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
        rng.InsertBreak wdSectionBreakNextPage
        rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
        rng.InsertFile strFolder & "\" & strFile
        strFile = Dir$()
    Loop
End Sub

 

by: dmangPosted on 2006-09-12 at 05:01:32ID: 17501659

Methinks that Graham has some pretty tight code to wrap the documents into one.

This'll work just fine unless you need a specific document order.

 

by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2006-09-12 at 05:57:32ID: 17502088

Yes, indeed Derek.  The questioner hasn't specified any requirement about that yet.

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