How do I join individual chapters files to make a book?

[david9954]

I write each chapter in Word and convert it to Publisher for layout and to
add photographs. I then want to merge these chapters into a book.

I have used Word and sub-dock to make a 250 page book with 300 photograph
(very difficult) I want to do this in Publisher where layout is much easer.

Publisher 2003 and Word 2003.

 

[Chuck Davis]

David,

In my opinion, you should have stayed with Word. Publisher has no provision
for footnotes, indexing, cross-referenceing, or tables of contents.

In my own book with 53 chapters, each chapter was a Word file. It is a text
book, with 912 pages including 1,458 images and illustrations. Word works!
Nearly 40,000 copies have been sold.

I would ask your publisher for the file format they they require before you
spend much more time on the project whether you continue with Publisher or
return to Word.

 

[WPA Ne]

David,

In my opinion, you should have stayed with Word. Publisher has no provision
for footnotes, indexing, cross-referenceing, or tables of contents.

In my own book with 53 chapters, each chapter was a Word file. It is a text
book, with 912 pages including 1,458 images and illustrations. Word works!
Nearly 40,000 copies have been sold.

I would ask your publisher for the file format they they require before you
spend much more time on the project whether you continue with Publisher or
return to Word.

I think this is sound advice. I, on the other hand, am currently
formatting a book with the same specifications as David is (400 pages,
250 pics). I am using Publisher, and I think Word was really a better
choice. I seem to be benefiting from a few things that Pub can do, but
too few to name. But I can list quite a few things I can't do that Word
does flawlessly.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Mary Sauer has some instructions on her site for using Mail Merge to do
this. Let me see if I can find a link...
http://msauer.mvps.org/combining_publisher_documents.htm

 

[david9954]

Mary Sauer has some instructions on her site for using Mail Merge to do
this. Let me see if I can find a link...
http://msauer.mvps.org/combining_publisher_documents.htm

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I write each chapter in Word and convert it to Publisher for layout and to
add photographs. I then want to merge these chapters into a book.

I have used Word and sub-dock to make a 250 page book with 300 photograph
(very difficult) I want to do this in Publisher where layout is much
easer.

Publisher 2003 and Word 2003.

Thanks

 

[david9954]

I think this is sound advice. I, on the other hand, am currently
formatting a book with the same specifications as David is (400 pages,
250 pics). I am using Publisher, and I think Word was really a better
choice. I seem to be benefiting from a few things that Pub can do, but
too few to name. But I can list quite a few things I can't do that Word
does flawlessly.



Thanks, What is the name of your book?

I though publisher could do more than it can.
David

 

[therm]

For sophisitcated layout work, you might want to try Pagemaker.
Publisher is not the answer.

Therm
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[Ed Bennett]

For sophisitcated layout work, you might want to try Pagemaker.
Publisher is not the answer.

PageMaker isn't sub-£400, let alone the sub-£150 price band in which
Publisher sits.

There are a number of freeware or free software DTP options available if
you don't want to use Publisher, and another one in a similar price
bracket to Publisher. PageMaker isn't one of them.