Combining several electronic documents into one is necessary to create a large scientific work, or an electronic textbook or methodological manual. This can be done in several ways: creating one file, or one main document and several subordinates.
Necessary
- - computer;
- - MS Word program.
Instructions
Step 1
Collect multiple Word documents that you want to combine into one *.doc file in one folder to make this process easier. Glueing documents in Word is easy, but you need to know some practical tips to do it. The easiest way to glue Word documents into one is to copy and paste. This is inconvenient and rather monotonous, and formatting can be broken.
Step 2
Combine documents in Word using the following method. Create the structure of your main document first, leave the page to insert the content. On the next page, enter the title of the first part of the document, it can be a chapter or a section.
Step 3
Separate parts of the document with breaks, then each new chapter will start on a new page, and not after the text of the previous chapter. Breaks will give your document a more professional and finished look. To do this, place the cursor at the end of the chapter, select the "Insert" menu, then "Break", in the window that opens, set the switch to "New section from the next page" and click "OK".
Step 4
Select the Insert menu to add the text for the next section, select File. A new "Insert File" window will open, in it, find and select the file that contains the chapter text. Paste the rest of the files in the same way to combine multiple Word documents into one. As a result, you will get a single document. If there were headers and footers in the original files, they will also be transferred to the main file without changes.
Step 5
Use styles to set consistent formatting throughout your document. For easy navigation through the sections of your text, apply the “Heading 1” style to the titles of chapters / sections, and “Heading 2/3” for subsections / paragraphs.
Step 6
Next, add a table of contents at the beginning of the text ("Insert" - "Table of Contents and Indexes"). Then a table of contents will appear on the first page, created from hyperlinks to pages with chapters. To go to the desired section, simply click on its name while holding down Ctrl.
