dindigal@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Harish Dindigal) (11/11/90)
I have 10 LARGE MS word files. I have to merge them to make a single file to run the program. What I did is this: Go to file 2. Highlight the whole file by dragging the mouse manually. The do a copy. Then go to file 1 and do a paste. Now my question to the knowledgeable folks out there is : * Is there a better way to do this merge files? * If this is the only way, then is there a better way to highlight the whole file without manually dragging the mouse? Please reply to : dindigal@rodan.acs.syr.edu Thanks in advance, Harish -- Harish Dindigal Email: dindigal@rodan.acs.syr.edu 152 Oakland St. #2 Phone: (315)-475-5856 Syracuse NY 13210
patel@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amit Patel ) (11/11/90)
>* If this is the only way, then is there a better way to highlight the whole > file without manually dragging the mouse? I don't know if there's a better way to merge the files, but you can highlight the entire file with Option-Command-M. (This keystroke can also be changed using Commands... . The name of the command is Select Whole Document.) -- Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn (sjporte@asc.upenn.edu)
xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) (11/11/90)
In article <1990Nov10.201555.4377@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dindigal@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Harish Dindigal) writes: >I have 10 LARGE MS word files. I have to merge them to make a single file to >run the program. What I did is this: > >Go to file 2. Highlight the whole file by dragging the mouse manually. >The do a copy. Then go to file 1 and do a paste. You can select the whole document by moving your mouse to the left side of the document window to the point where the pointer shifts from pointing to the northwest to the northeast (north is the top of the screen). Then hold down the apple/pretzel/command key and click the mouse once. The entire document is now highlighted. If you have an extended keyboard you can select the whole document by pressing the home key (to make sure that the insertion point is at the extreme top of the document), holding the apple/pretzel/command key and pressing the end key (if you have redefined end to be the end of the document in the command memu, and home is the top of the document). Then there's the option-command-m route. -- X-----------------------------------------------------------------------------X X David Baird xdab@midway.uchicago.edu X X University Computing Organizations d-baird@uchicago.edu X X University of Chicago (312) 702-7161 X
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (11/11/90)
So far, the two best ways to select ALL the file have been discussed ( mouse pointer in left marcin, hit Command key, or by using Option-Command-M). If you need a large block of the file, BUT not the whole file, try this one: Highlight the first word or so at the beginning; use the right elevator to move rapidly down to the end of the area you want to get; move the cursor to the end of the selection you want to include; hold down the shift key and highlight the last word of the selection. Voila! Have fun.
blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (11/12/90)
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
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (11/12/90)
> >* Is there a better way to do this merge files? in the 'document' dialog you can specify the 'next file', and thus string along all of your large documents. By doing this you can print the composite document all at once, but the 'sections' remain as seperate files. When you do this each document will begin on a new page, but you can make the pages be numbered sequentially by setting the 'begining' page number to zero for all but the first document. >* If this is the only way, then is there a better way to highlight the whole > file without manually dragging the mouse? to select any large region click at the begining, use the scroll bar to get to the end, and shift-click. I am sure if you read the manual there is a key comand to 'select all' as well. -- -george @sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu