Thanks Greg for that invaluable insight.
If I understand correctly, in order to use INCLUDETEXT field, I would first need to go into each source doc and to bookmark the text and then tell the target doc to use that bookmark name.
However, I receive about 10 different documents for each monthly reporting period. Do I need to go into each one and bookmark only the text I want each month? Is there any way to tell the people reporting their reports to bookmark it themselves?
Also, after the target doc is updated and contains all of the source docs, I then need to add outline numbering for each topic reported. Is there a way I can tell Word to assign a different number to each sub-report (source doc)?
Thanks so much for even more invaluable advice.