Making one document out of many.

[creativeimages]

I have a big problem, and I am not sure what to do.

I have 50 to 80 documents that I want the simplest and easiest way to make them one document. Most of the documents were found on the web. Many of the documents are using headers and footers with page numbering. The documents are .doc (Word), .xls (Excel), .PDF (Acrobat), .ppd (PowerPoint) and .html (web pages). All documents are not the same orientation – some are portrait, others are landscape. A few are not formatted, just large spreadsheets.

First, I would like to treat each file as a separate file, and print them in a certain order. I could put all of the files on a CD, and mail the CD to people that I will be meeting and have them print the information. Ideally, e-mail a file of some type that when printed will look-up the documents on the web and print a small book.

Secondly, I would like to add my observations and notes after each file; and add a chapter title page for each file to be printed.

Finally, it would be nice to add page numbers to the small book. Many of the documents are using Word’s footer function or PowerPoint’s master slide functions to have page numbers; I would like to keep these numbers and the small book’s page numbers. If I had 10 documents of 10 pages, each would have pages 1 to 10, and the combined document would have page numbers 1 to 100. Each page would have two page numbers, one that would be like a chapter pager number, the other would be the book page number.

 

[eyec]

without doing a whole lot of brainracking try using the bookmark (with hyperlinks) function when you assemble all of the documents into a single word file.

 

[BenRowe]

If you have Adobe Acrobat, another solution is to print each file to PDF and then assemble these PDFs into one file. Using Acrobae, you can assemble them quite easily --in File, Create PDF from multiple PDFs. Also, once they are assembled into one PDF, you can then add a footer for the page nums.