Re: OT: combining Word files for XyWrite project

[Alison Tartt akt@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Harry. I will do some experimenting with this over the weekend.

At 02:09 AM 1/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Using WordPort's filters, I'm going to be importing Word 97 files into
>>XyWrite 3+ so that I can edit them. As it turns out, the author of this
>>book created a separate Word file for each page in the book!
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>Good God!
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>You can concatenate (merge) files via DOS, but it works only for text files
>(that is, it produces garbage as far as Word is concerned). But if you can
>convert the files somehow first, here is the syntax for using at the c:\
>prompt:
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>copy file1+file2 both
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>That will make the file named "both" contain first what's in the file named
>"file1" then the file which named "file2".
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>You may be reduced to merging all of them in Word first. There are Word
>macro's that could help. But failing that, you might just have to issue a
>bunch of commands a few hundred times in Word to merge them.
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>My heart goes out to you.
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