From: Peter T. Daniels on
Hmm, that seems to have last been updated early in the life of
Word2000 ... and that sort of document doesn't seem to use that sort
of chatty style any more!

On Apr 27, 9:38 am, "Stefan Blom"
<StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> It should work with continuous section breaks; seehttp://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.
>
> Note that I don't pretend to know *why* it works. As explained in the article,
> it is unclear if anyone knows... :-)
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote in messagenews:809492c3-8e08-41d9-acff-839ca645ea80(a)k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> What does that do to different margin settings? Or even Portrait vs.
> Landscape!
>
> On Apr 27, 4:09 am, "Stefan Blom"
>
>
>
> <StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Actually, it should be a *continuous* section break.
>
> > --
> > Stefan Blom
> > Microsoft Word MVP
>
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote in
> > messagenews:7856bd24-663e-41ea-8366-558b39f69836(a)y30g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
> > As long as you haven't used the same Style names with different
> > formatting in different documents, you can simply use Insert > File
> > (Word2003) or Insert > Object > Text from File (Word2007) for as many
> > files as you'd like. Put a Section Break New Page at the start and end
> > of each file before you Insert it.
>
> > On Apr 26, 5:50 pm, kraftsims <krafts...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I'm working on a manual for my company. I've generated all these forms in
> > > different word documents. The manual is divided into 4 tabs/sections. I have
> > > anywhere from 2 to 12 or so documents in each section/tab.
>
> > > I had this idea that printing would be easier if I were to combine each
> > > section from multiple individual documents into one long document per
> > > section.
>
> > > How can I combine a series of documents?
> > > Anyone ever done this type of thing before (manual creation) and any good
> > > tips on commons do's and don'ts?
>
> > > Thanks--
From: Stefan Blom on
It's true that the details of the article haven't been updated, but the
principles still apply.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
news:ab3e05dd-495b-484c-8bcf-faee7a5a4b47(a)b6g2000yqi.googlegroups.com...
Hmm, that seems to have last been updated early in the life of
Word2000 ... and that sort of document doesn't seem to use that sort
of chatty style any more!

On Apr 27, 9:38 am, "Stefan Blom"
<StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> It should work with continuous section breaks;
> seehttp://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.
>
> Note that I don't pretend to know *why* it works. As explained in the article,
> it is unclear if anyone knows... :-)
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote in
> messagenews:809492c3-8e08-41d9-acff-839ca645ea80(a)k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> What does that do to different margin settings? Or even Portrait vs.
> Landscape!
>
> On Apr 27, 4:09 am, "Stefan Blom"
>
>
>
> <StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Actually, it should be a *continuous* section break.
>
> > --
> > Stefan Blom
> > Microsoft Word MVP
>
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote in
> > messagenews:7856bd24-663e-41ea-8366-558b39f69836(a)y30g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
> > As long as you haven't used the same Style names with different
> > formatting in different documents, you can simply use Insert > File
> > (Word2003) or Insert > Object > Text from File (Word2007) for as many
> > files as you'd like. Put a Section Break New Page at the start and end
> > of each file before you Insert it.
>
> > On Apr 26, 5:50 pm, kraftsims <krafts...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I'm working on a manual for my company. I've generated all these forms in
> > > different word documents. The manual is divided into 4 tabs/sections. I
> > > have
> > > anywhere from 2 to 12 or so documents in each section/tab.
>
> > > I had this idea that printing would be easier if I were to combine each
> > > section from multiple individual documents into one long document per
> > > section.
>
> > > How can I combine a series of documents?
> > > Anyone ever done this type of thing before (manual creation) and any good
> > > tips on commons do's and don'ts?
>
> > > Thanks--