appending files

[Joe]

If I'm preparing a long text file- often I'll prepare it as a series of
files rather than as a single long file. It's more convenient because often
such large files (for me) are already broken up into sections that are
usually less than a page anyways. Then if I need to edit a page I only need
to load the specific page not a long document.

This is fine except when I want to save the full item as a pdf file which I
can now do- with Office 2007- I downloaded the plug-in which can save the
file as a pdf.

But, I can't seem to find an easy way to start with the first page, then
tell Word to append each succeeding page. Since each page tends to have
complex formatting- which changes from page to page- it's not easy to just
copy each page to the clipboard, then paste into an appended blank page.

There must be an easier way.

Years ago I had a copy of Adobe Acrobat- and that program of course had a
nice easy way to append pdf files- so back then, I'd save each doc file to a
pdf, then append them one at a time- but, I don't have that computer and
Acrobat anymore and I can't afford to buy it.

Joe

PS: I'm locating this newsgroup on my local ISP's news server. I also have
"Microsoft Communities" news server set up in my IE 7 program- but there I
can't find this newsgroup- strange.....

 

[Steve G]

If I'm preparing a long text file- often I'll prepare it as a series of
files rather than as a single long file. It's more convenient because often
such large files (for me) are already broken up into sections that are
usually less than a page anyways. Then if I need to edit a page I only need
to load the specific page not a long document.

This is fine except when I want to save the full item as a pdf file which I
can now do- with Office 2007- I downloaded the plug-in which can save the
file as a pdf.

But, I can't seem to find an easy way to start with the first page, then
tell Word to append each succeeding page. Since each page tends to have
complex formatting- which changes from page to page- it's not easy to just
copy each page to the clipboard, then paste into an appended blank page.

There must be an easier way.

Years ago I had a copy of Adobe Acrobat- and that program of course had a
nice easy way to append pdf files- so back then, I'd save each doc file to a
pdf, then append them one at a time- but, I don't have that computer and
Acrobat anymore and I can't afford to buy it.

Joe

PS: I'm locating this newsgroup on my local ISP's news server. I also have
"Microsoft Communities" news server set up in my IE 7 program- but there I
can't find this newsgroup- strange.....

Acrobat Professional is the easiest way. You can probably get an
older version for under $100. To do the consolidation in word you
have to create section breaks and import the new information AFTER the
section break.

Steve G