Any MS Word gurus here? Need to combine some documents...
 

Hi- I need to combine 3 MS Word documents into 1 MS Word document for a project. Cut and paste won't do it because all 3 documents have substantially different formatting and margins. Is there a way to add pages from another file and preserve the native margins, etc?

Thanks in advance
BG

save all the documents as RTF or TXT, then cut and paste.

Copy-n-paste might work. When you right-click to paste, see if there's a "special paste" option. I think there is, then there should be a "paste and include source formatting" option. If you still have problems with one affecting the other, you may have better luck if you put a page or separation break at the end of one doc before you paste the next.

Start a new document with three Sections (Insert, Section Break). In each section, you should be able to cut/paste and preserve all formatting. You can also Insert the documents as an Object, Create from File.

Up through Office 2003 you could insert a file, and choose a word document, and it would keep the formatting. With 2007 for some reason they did away with this, and you need to use Insert, chose "object" in the text area, and then "text from file"

Haven't used it much, but so far it sucks compared to the old way.

Does the final version need to be editable?

If not, I would save each as a PDF and then combine the PDF docs into one master.

Select "all" and change the formats to be the same.