Dear Doug:

I tried the VBA code suggested by you but I may have done some mistakes as
nothing happens - text at bookmarks does not get pasted in the main document.
You might be able to spot some mistakes due to your experience. Files do get
opened and closed, and I do not get any error messages. Below is a record of
what I did: if you can spot some mistakes please let me know. Thanks all for
your time.

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 11/5/2006 by Deepak
Dim FileListDoc As Document
Dim FileList As Table
Dim FileA As Range
Dim FileB As Range
Dim DocA As Document
Dim DocB As Document
Dim bmName As String
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Set FileListDoc = Documents.Open("C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My
Documents\Word Programs\test folder for merge\FileList.doc")
Set FileList = FileListDoc.Tables(1)
For i = 2 To FileList.Rows.Count
   Set FileA1 = FileList.Cell(i, 1).Range
   FileA1.End = FileA1.End - 1
   Set DocA = Documents.Open(FileA1.Text)
   Set FileB1 = FileList.Cell(i, 2).Range
   FileB1.End = FileB1.End - 1
   Set DocB = Documents.Open(FileB1.Text)
   For j = 1 To DocA.Bookmarks.Count
       bmName = DocA.Bookmarks(i).Name
       DocA.Bookmarks(i).Range.Text = DocB.Bookmarks(bmName).Range.Text
   Next j
   DocA.Save
   DocA.Close
   DocB.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
Next i
'
End Sub

Is there any place where I need to write the bookmark name supposing the
bookmark names are jungle1, jungle2, jungle3, jungle4,jungle5 (Same in both
file pairs)

File list.doc is reproduced as below:

Table1
DocA                   DocB
C:\merge\FileA1    C:\merge\FileB1
C:\merge\FileA2    C:\merge\FileB2

Deepak

Thanks Doug and Macropod for your timely reponses:

I will try the VBA code as suggested by Doug over the coming weekend and
let you know how it worked. Secondly can you please give me some more
information, step wise how to use INCLUDETEXT field command, both of you
please keep in mind I am not an IT professional.

Deepak