Thanks for the quick reply, Macropod. As a FrameMaker user, I find it frustrating when the client wants me to use Word. I'm fine with Word, but the one thing I've always had problems with is handling multiple documents.

I use field codes in footers (date, page number, filename), but have never used the INCLUDETEXT one. Had to do a little research to understand what was going on, how to see field codes versus text, and so on. A lot of information out there is related to earlier versions of Word, so I had to make sure they worked for 2013.

If anyone's interested, here are two articles that helped orient me:

http://www.quepublishing.com/article...27853&seqNum=2

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...in=HA102749146

Also, I created my "source" file (the one with all the INCLUDETEXT commands) in the same directory as the files I'm including. That way I can make the INCLUDETEXT a little shorter, using a relative path:

{ INCLUDETEXT "Introduction.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }
{ INCLUDETEXT "RequestTimeOff.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }
{ INCLUDETEXT "PayrollPolicies.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }