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Inserting another complete document into my document
OK, so back to sections.
Refer to my previous post (create a section, unlink the headers/footers, etc., paste Joe's text).
1. Go to Your Header Section 1: Insert a two-row table. Row 1: Your header text. Copy table.
2. Go to Joe's Section: Paste the table, Insert Joe's header to Row 2.
3 Go to Your Header Section 3: Paste the table.
Bob's your uncle.
Variations:
Table has three columns, use column 1 and 3, or two columns.
Instead of a table, use tabs.
Or don't use table or tabs, just insert two paragraphs. You can also style them differently.
Use the Navigation Next/Previous commands in the 'Header & Footer' on-demand ribbon for smoother control. L.
Yes that's what I'm after. Interesting. I already tried using a table. But I only used a one row table and e hen o tried to paste Joe's content into it, with headers, Word gave an error that said can't paste that doc into my table"
But you have the image so I'm going to try again.
ThanksHello MikeSD ,
I think that's the problem. When you paste over something (the source) that has headers, it will mess up your target document, document layout, margins, you name it.
Section breaks are also a potential hazard, as they carry over much more information then is generally acknowledged, so should never be copied over to a new document unless you know what you are carrying over.
Any time there is a section break in a source document, it is worth creating that section anew in a target document, copy the source text and Paste "Text only" into the target one, and continue copy/pasting after the end of that section.
Saves a loooot of unnecessary work.
I'm still not getting what you are getting. .
Verion1
Section 1:
My headers
--> My Content
Section 2:
Joe's header
-->Joe's content
Section 3:
My Headers
--> My Content
Version 2
When I paste Joe's document into my document, his headers override mine.
I tried tables but when I select Joe's document and try to paste into a table, it says "can's paste selection into tables".
In your screenshot, it looks like you just modified the headers for each section. Is that what you did? Manually paste Joe's header, after my header? If you did, I'll look into that, but I'm not sure that's what I'm after. This way, it still looks like the included content is mine. I want to attribute all of Joe's work as his, and just make it look like an included document.One thing that almost worked, is by pasting into my document as an image. But I won't want to use images. I can't be the first one to ever want to do this.
Update: Actually modifying the header manually might be a good solution. I just tried it, and it works well.
Oh wait, I just noticed that modifying the header, modified all headers, but I think that's an easy fix, if I can apply it only to section 2. When I click on headers it says Secton 2, but also "Same as Previous"
Resolved: I just changed the section to unclick the Same as Previous option.
Thanks
