The documents in the attachment I provided don't use textboxes - they use tables. If you format the tables in the A/B/C documents to not have borders, the target document won't have them either. Done correctly, you'll only ever need to do this once.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

thanks alot, Paul

You know, this is all nicely said. But when actually doing it, it becomes pretty frustrating. I thought I (we) had it all worked out. I'll explain what I'm talking about.
There's about 10 team members who have to send to me their monthly reports.
So I have to send to each one a different template to fill out.
In order to not lose the bookmarks, I bookmarked a number of different table cells in the templates.
Now, when importing the whole cell into the target doc, the cell gets misplaced and is not-in-line, especially when the report has outlined numbering.
So I tried making the target doc into one large table and manually insert the outline numbers and chapter headings (they stay the same from month to month). I figured the imported cell box would fit neatly into the large table. But I was wrong. The cell is placed in the lower part of the larger cell, with empty space above it (I think the space is from the field code itself(.
Perhaps you have a work-around, or a completely different method of doing this, Paul?
Thank you very much for at least considering it.