How to I combine pages to form a single publication?

John,
I understand and I appreciate your taking the time and effort to reply. It
is just that I am a little disappointed with the product. It is not a new
issue and I had hoped that it was resolved.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

"John Inzer" wrote:

Michael A. Miller wrote:
Dear JoAnn,
Cutting and pasting is not suitable for a publication of 28 pages, is
there any other way? It seems MS Publisher suggests this technique;
but without a way to combine work, what is the advantage?
========================
Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

It's not something I could do in the amount of time it takes to chug a
beer, but with Ctrl/A, Ctrl/C, switch Page and Ctrl/V, (or even better
if Pub has a shortcut for Paste In Place) it wouldn't take very long!

Mike

Uncle Grumpy wrote:
"John Inzer" wrote:


Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w


I can probably cut and paste 28 pages faster than I can read and
follow those instructions ;-)

Mike Koewler wrote:

It's not something I could do in the amount of time it takes to chug a
beer,

There's where you went wrong: NEVER chug a beer. Not even a "light"
beer, as bad as that genre is.

Take your time. Savor it.

I second that notion. A friend of mine asked me to help put his illustrated
book onto a cd. I naively told him that would be no problem. It turns out he
put each page together as a separate document. At a little over 400 pages
Ctrl-C Ctrl-V is not an acceptable solution. If you drag a file into
Publisher the cursor switches to the add icon but the document opens in a
separate window which is infuriating. The database solution seems a bit
convoluted as well. Combining multiple documents into a PUBLISHING
application seems like a basic function to me. I find it odd we even need to
have this conversation in the first place.

Dear Publisher team, great product but please, please, please fix this.

Thanks and good luck.

Dave

"Michael A. Miller" wrote:

John,
I understand and I appreciate your taking the time and effort to reply. It
is just that I am a little disappointed with the product. It is not a new
issue and I had hoped that it was resolved.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

"John Inzer" wrote:

Michael A. Miller wrote:
Dear JoAnn,
Cutting and pasting is not suitable for a publication of 28 pages, is
there any other way? It seems MS Publisher suggests this technique;
but without a way to combine work, what is the advantage?
========================
Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

I've done the same mistake but with something less than 400 pages. The
solution for me was make the new page 1 5 feet by 5 feet. Correct, 5'x5'.
Then I copied my ~100 pages into the single 5'x5'. Next I added pages 2
through ~100, linked them to each other and also to page 1. Next, I resized
page 1 down to 8½"x11" and text on page 1 flowed on to pages 2 through ~100.
Tough lesson for misusing the program but solvable.

Good luck on the overhaul.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"ColdH2Odvr" wrote in message
...
I second that notion. A friend of mine asked me to help put his illustrated
book onto a cd. I naively told him that would be no problem. It turns out
he
put each page together as a separate document. At a little over 400 pages
Ctrl-C Ctrl-V is not an acceptable solution. If you drag a file into
Publisher the cursor switches to the add icon but the document opens in a
separate window which is infuriating. The database solution seems a bit
convoluted as well. Combining multiple documents into a PUBLISHING
application seems like a basic function to me. I find it odd we even need
to
have this conversation in the first place.

Dear Publisher team, great product but please, please, please fix this.

Thanks and good luck.

Dave

"Michael A. Miller" wrote:

John,
I understand and I appreciate your taking the time and effort to reply.
It
is just that I am a little disappointed with the product. It is not a
new
issue and I had hoped that it was resolved.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

"John Inzer" wrote:

Michael A. Miller wrote:
Dear JoAnn,
Cutting and pasting is not suitable for a publication of 28 pages, is
there any other way? It seems MS Publisher suggests this technique;
but without a way to combine work, what is the advantage?
========================
Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Ouch!

There are a lot of graphics in his book so I'm afraid autoflow would mean a
lot more work. I'm going the publish to PDF then merge in Adobe rout. Only
340 odd pages to go!

Thanks,

Dave

"Don Schmidt" wrote:

I've done the same mistake but with something less than 400 pages. The
solution for me was make the new page 1 5 feet by 5 feet. Correct, 5'x5'.
Then I copied my ~100 pages into the single 5'x5'. Next I added pages 2
through ~100, linked them to each other and also to page 1. Next, I resized
page 1 down to 8½"x11" and text on page 1 flowed on to pages 2 through ~100.
Tough lesson for misusing the program but solvable.

Good luck on the overhaul.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"ColdH2Odvr" wrote in message
...
I second that notion. A friend of mine asked me to help put his illustrated
book onto a cd. I naively told him that would be no problem. It turns out
he
put each page together as a separate document. At a little over 400 pages
Ctrl-C Ctrl-V is not an acceptable solution. If you drag a file into
Publisher the cursor switches to the add icon but the document opens in a
separate window which is infuriating. The database solution seems a bit
convoluted as well. Combining multiple documents into a PUBLISHING
application seems like a basic function to me. I find it odd we even need
to
have this conversation in the first place.

Dear Publisher team, great product but please, please, please fix this.

Thanks and good luck.

Dave

"Michael A. Miller" wrote:

John,
I understand and I appreciate your taking the time and effort to reply.
It
is just that I am a little disappointed with the product. It is not a
new
issue and I had hoped that it was resolved.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

"John Inzer" wrote:

Michael A. Miller wrote:
Dear JoAnn,
Cutting and pasting is not suitable for a publication of 28 pages, is
there any other way? It seems MS Publisher suggests this technique;
but without a way to combine work, what is the advantage?
========================
Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Good solution.

My other hard-to-learn lesson was when I typed out 30+ pages of a document
and we were having one of our Northwest thunderstorms. Across the county
was a lightening strike, a gazillion of a second power interruption and 30+
pages went up in cyber smoke. It's called the day I went out and got a UPS.
(Also,"to save often").

--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"ColdH2Odvr" wrote in message
...
Ouch!

There are a lot of graphics in his book so I'm afraid autoflow would mean
a
lot more work. I'm going the publish to PDF then merge in Adobe rout. Only
340 odd pages to go!

Thanks,

Dave

"Don Schmidt" wrote:

I've done the same mistake but with something less than 400 pages. The
solution for me was make the new page 1 5 feet by 5 feet. Correct,
5'x5'.
Then I copied my ~100 pages into the single 5'x5'. Next I added pages 2
through ~100, linked them to each other and also to page 1. Next, I
resized
page 1 down to 8½"x11" and text on page 1 flowed on to pages 2 through
~100.
Tough lesson for misusing the program but solvable.

Good luck on the overhaul.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"ColdH2Odvr" wrote in message
...
I second that notion. A friend of mine asked me to help put his
illustrated
book onto a cd. I naively told him that would be no problem. It turns
out
he
put each page together as a separate document. At a little over 400
pages
Ctrl-C Ctrl-V is not an acceptable solution. If you drag a file into
Publisher the cursor switches to the add icon but the document opens in
a
separate window which is infuriating. The database solution seems a bit
convoluted as well. Combining multiple documents into a PUBLISHING
application seems like a basic function to me. I find it odd we even
need
to
have this conversation in the first place.

Dear Publisher team, great product but please, please, please fix this.

Thanks and good luck.

Dave

"Michael A. Miller" wrote:

John,
I understand and I appreciate your taking the time and effort to
reply.
It
is just that I am a little disappointed with the product. It is not a
new
issue and I had hoped that it was resolved.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

"John Inzer" wrote:

Michael A. Miller wrote:
Dear JoAnn,
Cutting and pasting is not suitable for a publication of 28 pages,
is
there any other way? It seems MS Publisher suggests this
technique;
but without a way to combine work, what is the advantage?
========================
Have a look at the following article:

Combining Publisher Documents
http://tinyurl.com/2lpj5w

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk