Q&A for How to Merge Documents in Microsoft Word

If two people are working on the same document at the same time, you will end up with two conflicting revisions. Both may have started from the same base version of the document, but through their separate work, they have created two different, revised versions. The point of merging is to combine the changes of both contributors into a new, complete revision of the document. The merging process compares what was changed in each version of the document, and tries to automatically create a new document combining all changes from all editors. Manual intervention may be necessary, if, for example, two authors changed the same sentence in different ways.

Page tab - Break - Insert New Section Break; this will give you this chance to change page numbering.

Create a table with two columns on the page with two columns. Copy and paste the German text into the left column, and copy and paste the English text into the right column. If you wish you can put each paragraph of English and German into a new row in the table. Adjust your cells as necessary.

Open your Word Perfect document, then choose File, then Save As. Before you click Save, examine the window. There should be a dropdown menu where you can specify the file type. Click on the tiny arrow, then choose .doc or .docx, if available. If not, choose .rtf. Then, save your document. Word will be able to open your newly saved file, and you can fix the formatting if necessary.

Follow the instructions listed in the article above.

These steps should work for documents that contain charts, diagrams and pictures. If not, try these steps: Open the first Word document, and put your cursor where you want the information from the second document to go. Go to "Insert" on your tool bar, click "insert text from file," select file, and click insert.

Get an application called WinRar. Its free and easy to use. Just click your files and then click merge.

You can't, you would have to format the hard drive unless you installed it on a partition. If you created a partition, then all you have to do is remove the partition.

If you mean merging documents sequentially: First, go to the end of Doc A. Hit Enter a few times. Scroll up to end of text, down two lines. Insert a section break. Now, use that location to merge in Doc B. A should have it's numbering, B should restart at page 1. Continue for all docs in your anthology. For your TOC, you will need a unique header text format (font, size) so it can pull that into the TOC.