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Murthy - 23 Feb 2004 16:35 GMT

I have a long document created by merging various smaller documents.

Each of these smaller documents had their own headers and footers.

Now after I merge them, word is only taking the header and footer of the
first document and applying the same to all the documents that were copied
and pasted with this document.

Do I have a solution to keep the different headers and footers in the merged
document? Please help.

Thanks & Regards
Murthy

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Charles Kenyon - 23 Feb 2004 17:20 GMT

See <URL: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm>.

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R Sathyamurthy - 24 Feb 2004 02:43 GMT

Dear Charels,

Thanks. I will try this.

FYI, I tried myself the master document method and not being satisfied with
the results I posted to the group.

True to your warning, I had first saved my original documents in a different
directory and then made the trial in that directory.

Regards
Murthy

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Hugh - 23 Feb 2004 22:54 GMT

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See Word Help about creating a Master Document. Create
the master document in outline format, then use the icon
on the outline toolbar to add each subdocument.

Then go into View - Header and Footer - and break the same
as previous on each of the subdocument's first pages (or
first and second if using odd and even different). There
is an icon on the header and footer toolbar to do that,
unfortunately, I cannot draw that icon here.

Now you can put anything you wish on the header and footer
of each subdocument. In my document, I leave the header
with Same as Previous for the entire docment, but have the
chapter numbers in the footer of each chapter.
Interestingly, the page numbers continue to flow
contiguously.

Good luck

Hugh

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Charles Kenyon - 23 Feb 2004 23:12 GMT

Unless you are an expert Word user, do _not_ follow Hugh's advice!

"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the
limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these
newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a sure way to
destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are
not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said
that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and
those that will be corrupt soon. See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.

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