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

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