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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Problem with merging LARGE MS word files!
Message-ID: <555@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 90 20:18:15 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.201555.4377@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <1990Nov10.201555.4377@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dindigal@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Harish Dindigal) writes:
|* If this is the only way, then is there a better way to highlight the whole
|  file without manually dragging the mouse? 

Hold down the command key and click in the selection bar.  By default,
this (Select Whole Document) is assigned to command-option-m (which can
be changed using Commands...).  Both the reference manual and quick
reference manual contain this information.

|* Is there a better way to do this merge files?

Create a new file containing:

<<include file1
<<include file2
etc. for each file you want to merge.

where << is option-\, not two < characters.

Next, do a Print Merge..., and click on New Document.  Word will create
a new document containing all of the files you said to include.  This
document can then be saved, edited, printed, whatever.

Note that you can also leave the documents unmerged, and just merge them
for printing.  I just finished a 200 or so page manual in Word, and the
only time the 15 or so different files got merged was for printing the
final manual.  I do all my editing and previewing on smaller files
because it's so much faster.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP