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Merging Word documents into a single document

THis question is a follow up question to https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28291498/MS-Word-macro-to-switch-columns-in-all-tables-in-all-documents-in-folder.html

How can I quickly merge all the Word documents in a folder into a single document, and add a page break between songs? I would like the songs added in alphabetical order as well.

Thanks!
Lantau-Songbook.zip

Chris Bottomley

Perfectly feasible though the definition of quickly may be the issue however I suggest we get the previous question resolved before you take this one any further to avoid conflict

Chris

Chris Bottomley

Noting the previous question request to keep column widths this is not as easy as i thought it would be ... do you still want the individual files to keep thei column widths ... because on my first pass some of the data is lost to the right of the document.

'==========================================================================
'
' VBScript Source File -- Created with SAPIEN Technologies PrimalScript 2009
'
' NAME: 
'
' AUTHOR: Jaguar Land Rover , Jaguar Land Rover
' DATE  : 15/11/2013
'
' COMMENT: 
'
'==========================================================================

Dim wdApp
Dim strErr
Dim tbl
Dim doc
Dim startFlag

On Error Resume Next
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder("C:\DeleteMe\Test1")
Set Files = folder.Files

Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.application")
wdApp.visible = false
Set masterDoc = wdApp.Documents.add
startFlag = false
wrdPageBreak = 7
wrdCollapseEnd = 0
For Each fil In Files
    If Right(LCase(fil), 5) = ".docx" OR Right(LCase(fil), 5) = ".docm" OR Right(LCase(fil), 4) = ".doc" Then
        Set doc = wdApp.Documents.Open(fil.Path)
	    Set RNG = masterdoc.Range
	    RNG.Collapse wrdCollapseEnd
		If startFlag Then
		    RNG.InsertBreak wrdPageBreak
		Else
			startFlag = true
		End If
	    RNG.InsertAfter doc.range.text
		doc.close
    End If
Next
wdApp.visible = True
    WScript.Echo "Finished"

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tomfolinsbee

ASKER

Hi Chris,

I saved the script in notepad, and saved it, but it didn't turn in a .vbs file. So I copied it to an existing .vbs file, saved it, and ran it. I got a "finished" message, but I couldn't find any merged document. Where's the destination folder? Assume its supposed to be the same as the one where the script is?

Cheers,

Tom

Chris Bottomley

The new document is opened but not saved so you need to save the new document before closing it

Chris

tomfolinsbee

ASKER

Apologies for the late reply, thanks for the Solution!