Headers and footers when pasting one file into another

[Pats]

Hi all,
I'm stuck. I have document A which has headers and
footers, and I would like to incorporate it in document B
which also has headers and footers.
How can do this in a way that the headers and footers of
document A are overridden by the headers and footers of B?
Now the headers and footers of A are automatically
transferred into B.

And another thing is all the definitions of A (styles of
the heading) are also transferred (this means that chapter
1 of document A is renamed chapter 20 when pasting it into
B). This is something that I don't want.

I use the insert-> file option since both documents are
quite long.

Thanks for the input
Pats

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you insert A into B, you should be getting the headers/footers from B
unless (a) A is empty when you insert B or (b) B has more than one section.
Ordinarily you want styles and numbering to be consistent throughout a
document. If you want the inserted file to bring its own styles in as
unique, you must rename them in B to something different from the names of
the styles in A. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html