Problems merging multiple Word documents

I wrote a book about Trigonometry using Microsoft Word 97 SR2. Because
of the line art and equations that needed to be inserted, and because of
the editing and constant proofing and changing, I opted to use a
separate Word document for each page. In all, there are are about 37
documents. When I tried to merge them into a single file for the
publisher, Word lost the formatting of many of the pages. The fonts,
spacing, object and drawing placement were all over the place, not to
mention, the page numbers that I had inserted in each document as
footers were also changed to conform to the settings for the master
document and it's contiguous documents. I even tried to add page brakes
to the end of each page before "Insert File".

My second solution was to use Microsoft Binder to put all of the
documents into a single print job to create a PRN file for the
publisher. This fixed the problem with the formatting of the documents
being lost, but the system that is built into binder for Headers and
Footers overrided my individual settings for my page numbers.

I tried to use the "File Open" dialog and select multiple documents
and then choose the "Print" option as well. This worked for about 12 of
the documents before the printer stopped printing. I figured out that
using that method sends each document to the printer as a separate job.
The printer can only handle so many "Print Jobs" before it stops
spooling and the que becomes maxed out. I'm stuck in a catch-22.

does anyone know how to take 37 word documents and merge them into one
single print job without merging them into a single file first? If this
is not possible, is there a way to merge them together "As Is" without
loosing the formatting? Any other method or trick or knowledge
concerning this would be extremely helpful.

Thx,
Tevibear

The fastest method I can think of is to create all PDFs, and then merge the
PDFs, Tevi.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com


"Tevibear" wrote in message
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I wrote a book about Trigonometry using Microsoft Word 97 SR2. Because
of the line art and equations that needed to be inserted, and because of
the editing and constant proofing and changing, I opted to use a
separate Word document for each page. In all, there are are about 37
documents. When I tried to merge them into a single file for the
publisher, Word lost the formatting of many of the pages. The fonts,
spacing, object and drawing placement were all over the place, not to
mention, the page numbers that I had inserted in each document as
footers were also changed to conform to the settings for the master
document and it's contiguous documents. I even tried to add page brakes
to the end of each page before "Insert File".

My second solution was to use Microsoft Binder to put all of the
documents into a single print job to create a PRN file for the
publisher. This fixed the problem with the formatting of the documents
being lost, but the system that is built into binder for Headers and
Footers overrided my individual settings for my page numbers.

I tried to use the "File Open" dialog and select multiple documents
and then choose the "Print" option as well. This worked for about 12 of
the documents before the printer stopped printing. I figured out that
using that method sends each document to the printer as a separate job.
The printer can only handle so many "Print Jobs" before it stops
spooling and the que becomes maxed out. I'm stuck in a catch-22.

does anyone know how to take 37 word documents and merge them into one
single print job without merging them into a single file first? If this
is not possible, is there a way to merge them together "As Is" without
loosing the formatting? Any other method or trick or knowledge
concerning this would be extremely helpful.

Thx,
Tevibear

Thx Ann. I already tried Cute PDF from CNET. It isn't very good. Decent
programs for PDF creation are too pricy for my taste. I'll just have to
find a way to "Jerry Rig" them together. If there is a print management
program out there that would merge the files into one print job, that
would more than suffice.

Thx,
Tevibear

Anne Troy wrote:

The fastest method I can think of is to create all PDFs, and then merge the
PDFs, Tevi.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com

"Tevibear" wrote in message
...
I wrote a book about Trigonometry using Microsoft Word 97 SR2. Because
of the line art and equations that needed to be inserted, and because of
the editing and constant proofing and changing, I opted to use a
separate Word document for each page. In all, there are are about 37
documents. When I tried to merge them into a single file for the
publisher, Word lost the formatting of many of the pages. The fonts,
spacing, object and drawing placement were all over the place, not to
mention, the page numbers that I had inserted in each document as
footers were also changed to conform to the settings for the master
document and it's contiguous documents. I even tried to add page brakes
to the end of each page before "Insert File".

My second solution was to use Microsoft Binder to put all of the
documents into a single print job to create a PRN file for the
publisher. This fixed the problem with the formatting of the documents
being lost, but the system that is built into binder for Headers and
Footers overrided my individual settings for my page numbers.

I tried to use the "File Open" dialog and select multiple documents
and then choose the "Print" option as well. This worked for about 12 of
the documents before the printer stopped printing. I figured out that
using that method sends each document to the printer as a separate job.
The printer can only handle so many "Print Jobs" before it stops
spooling and the que becomes maxed out. I'm stuck in a catch-22.

does anyone know how to take 37 word documents and merge them into one
single print job without merging them into a single file first? If this
is not possible, is there a way to merge them together "As Is" without
loosing the formatting? Any other method or trick or knowledge
concerning this would be extremely helpful.

Thx,
Tevibear