Appending a Publisher file to another Publisher file

[Peter]

I must be missing something obvious, for I am sure this should be a
straightforward problem and one that many users of MS Publsher have
encountered and solved.

I have two publisher files - each is rather big (about 50 pages). They are
book chapters and so there will be more. I cannot find a way of appending
one publisher file at the bottom of another publisher file to make one longer
document. My objective is to make one large document from two smaller ones
and to keep doing this with all newly drafted chapters to have the entire
book in one Publisher file.

I was hoping that it would be as simple as blocking up the pages in one
document and copying them and then going into the other document and pasting
them in. But alas, I cannot do this.

I am using MS Publisher 2003 running in MS Office 2003 in MS Windows XP
Version 2002 Home Ed. Service Pack 2

Can anybody help plse?

 

[Mary Sauer]

This method is convoluted but it works. If you have questions email me.
mary-sauer at columbus.rr.com
http://msauer.mvps.org/combining_publisher_documents.htm

 

[eezzell]

Publisher is not a very good tool for what you are describing. Word would
certainly be better since it allows the creation of master documents that
point to separate subdocuments. In Word, after creating a new chapter, you
would open the master document and add a link to the new chapter.

 

[Peter]

Many thanks Mary. I will go to the website you suggest and see if I can get
it to work.

 

[Peter]

Ahh yes, but there are many things that Word cannot do that Publisher can.
In this case I want to use the graphical and layout wonders available in
Publisher.