interlacing word documents

[ado]

My need is to interlace page by page two word documents written in two different languages : Original + translation.


I would like to know if there is a genious and easy option in order to oppose them page by page, in a new common document, but by maintaining respectively their own headers, footers and notes in the bottom of pages.
Many thanks for any suggestion.

[macropod]

Not without great difficulty. Every page would require a 'Next Page' Section break, with headers/footers unlinked from the previous Section, so that each page could have its own header footer, and so on. Even then, you'd have problems with footnotes unless you re-start their numbering on each page.

[ado]

Thanks you for your fast reply.
This is really a long way to do that page by page while we have to ensure a false continuity between pages of the same document.......
The need of merging/interlacing documents is more and more usual and it seems that there is nothing to expect from microsoft ( New document model, advanced operations on document, etc).

[macropod]

The reason Word doesn't provide such a tool is simple: there is very little demand for it, so I don't see any reason to expect it - now or in any future release. FWIW, in 15 years of providing user support, yours is the first post I know of seeking this. If you think Microsoft should provide such a feature, you can suggest it at: http://word.uservoice.com/

[eNGiNe]

Originally Posted by macropod

The reason Word doesn't provide such a tool is simple: there is very little demand for it, so I don't see any reason to expect it - now or in any future release. FWIW, in 15 years of providing user support, yours is the first post I know of seeking this. If you think Microsoft should provide such a feature, you can suggest it at: http://word.uservoice.com/

Elsewhere, it's handled by "flows"; but I've only needed to use this option once in thirty years or so.