Hello, 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? A macro perhaps? I thought I had one that I found online, but it also didn't retain the formatting of the succeeding pages, so that was a no-go. I am not experienced with the coding of macros, but I can get one installed properly if I have the text, and then run it, usually. Hope someone can help out -- many thanks. Leeeny Lehner email to x40 at mail dot ru 13 Jan 2003 0054 PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml