Hi all,



I need to merge 6 word documents into a single document. The formatting/spacing/fonts/headers & footers etc. have to remain the same in the new combined document. I've tried copy and paste and inserting text but the formatting seems to change no matter what I do.

This should be a simple task but I'm at a loss.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know if this will answer your question completely but, here is a link that addresses your topic: http://word.tips.net/T003453_Maintai...Documents.html.

Thanks,

This helps a bit but I can't use the option of pasting as a picture as this has to be a live document that can be changed when need be.

You need each separate part separated by section breaks. Sections control headers/footers and margins.

Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013

If the documents have disparate formatting i.e. they have the same style names representing different formats, then what you ask is not achievable. The best you can get is to insert a section break then insert a file. See http://www.gmayor.com/Boiler.htm

If you are prepared to make the style names used in each document unique to those documents, where the formatting differs, then you will have more chance of getting what you want. If whoever created the document did so using only manual formatting then forget it.

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