I always liked the subdocuments feature, anyway... What works for me is to choose from the menus, Insert, File, and pick the one page word document to insert. All the formatting is usually preserved. I find it gets sticky if you want to insert into an inserted page, so I do all my editing in the original, then reinsert it into the finished document. My pages have a lot of 'difficult to position' objects on them, not just special typesetting layouts, so your luck could be better then mine with post insertion editing. Tom Turak -----Original Message----- From: x40 [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:56 AM I am running Word 2002 (XP), and I have 14 single-page .DOC files, each of which has a lot of different formatting which varies from page to page (columns, inserted graphics, font styles, etc). I'd like to combine them all into one 14-page document file, while not hosing up each page's formatting. I am amazed at how un-straight-forward this appears to be, unless I am even thicker in the head than I feel at the moment after numerous unsuccessful attempts. Simple cutting/pasting does horrible things to the formatting, since Word thinks the stuff being pasted wants the same formatting as the last line of the existing stuff in front of it. Not a good thing. I don't want embedded objects, nor Outlining and Subdocuments (unless someone can explain how those will give me what I am after) ... surely there is SOME way to achieve this? PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml