Re: Merging two separate Word docs?

In article <1185372685.286899.165060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Emvee <mvhetes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is what I have so far:

The suggestion to draw a table seemed to be the best option. The text
took a bit of mucking around with in order to align the copy in the
table with the other column of text to the right, but it looks pretty
good. It even shows up in "Print Preview", whereas the text boxes did
NOT. My only complaint now is that in "Normal" view the tables and
text columns appear on seperate pages. Am I stuck with this, or is
there a way to force them to appear together, as they do in "Print
Preview"?

Normal View is hopeless for displaying the final layout. It is not
intended to. It is supposed to be the fastest way of processing your
document before you start worrying about pagination and layout.

Page View will get much closer. It makes a fair attempt at splitting
pages at the same place as the print operation. It is not meant to be
perfect.

Print » Preview will give it pretty much exactly as long as you have
the correct printer selected in the print dialog. Pretty much means
that any eps illustrations will appear fuzzier than they will print.

While you are playing silly games and fighting Word every inch of the
way trying to kid it into being a page layout program, get used to the
idea that almost the only way to see which way it will print is to
print.

When you get over this project, grab a copy of "Bend Word to Your Will"
at
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html

and pay particular attention to the "Minimum Maintenance Formatting"
stuff.

That will teach you how to fight Word and win.
;-)

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