Merging documents in word?

[softice11]

Hi,

How can i merge 2 word documents together keeping the portrait and landscape page formmating the same. For some reason when i merge them together the landcape pages become portrait and it messes up the whole document.

Thanks in advance

 

[TonyJollans]

You need to put a section break in (at the end of the first document? - use Insert > Break) and format one section as portrait and the other as landscape (use File > Page Setup)

Enjoy,
Tony

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[softice11]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the reply, What about if the secound document i'm merging in has both landscape and portrait pages?

Thanx

 

[TonyJollans]

Then the second document already has a section break in it - and you may or may not need to add another one depending on which comes first and what other formatting there is. How are you doing the merge?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[softice11]

I'm not really up to speed with office, but i'm using Insert, then file.

 

[TonyJollans]

Unfortunately, you will never get this perfect - you are merging content without complete formatting - and what you get will depend on the actual formats. If you are looking to automate this it may be possible to do better but, as a manual exercise, trial and error may be as good a method as any. Try adding a section break then copying and pasting the entire contents of the second file into the first and see if that's any better.


Enjoy,
Tony

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[softice11]

Ok, i will try that , and if it's possible to automate it that would be great as i have a lot to do, any pointers on automating?

Thanks

 

[softice11]

Thanks Tony i tried the section break , copy and paste method and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help, saved me a lot of time doing boring mundane formatting.