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How to extract sections with the same heading from multiple documents and merge into new single doc
Hello,
I have multiple documents with class annotations, one for each day. I created one file for each day of class, containing the different classes as different headings, as follows. Each file have its own table of contents: File 1 - Day 01 Heading - Common Law Sub heading - british law Heading - Civil Law Sub heading - italian law Heading - Roman Law Sub heading - justinian law File 2 - Day 02 Heading - Common Law Sub heading - british law continued Heading - Civil Law Sub heading - french law Heading - Roman Law Sub heading - justinian law continued Now, I would like to create a word document for each subject (Common Law, Roman Law, etc.), that would combine every content of classes in separate word files: File 01 Heading - Common Law Sub heading - british law Sub heading - british law continued File 02 Heading - Civil Law Sub heading - italian law Sub heading - french law etc Is there any automated way of doing this? Or will I have do rely on ctrl c + ctrl v? |
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Can it be done? Yes.
Easily? Not for me. Any method would include programming to check for very specific markers. A problem would likely be that the marker for your headings and subheadings would logically be heading styles. That would not work. You would need to be using different Styles for each and then somehow marking the end of a section of notes. When I was in school, I would not have had time to automatically use markers while taking notes. Absent contemporaneous marking, copy and paste is likely to be much more efficient. If you have Office, a suggestion: Check out OneNote. I do not know if it is included in your version. Back in the early days of the Mac, there was a program called "More" that would have been very good for this. It was never ported to Windows and eventually stopped being sold. |
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One way, with no cut & paste, would be to bookmark the Common Law, Civil Law & Roman Law portions in each document - using the same bookmark names in each - then using INCLUDETEXT fields in another document to reference those bookmarks and pull in all the Common Law content in the source documents, for example. See:
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...a-2ff950fb629e Once you've created the INCLUDETEXT field for the first source document's Common Law content, all you then need to do is replicate the INCLUDETEXT field however many times you need, change the source file's name for each copy, then press Ctrl-A, F9 to update the lot.
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