![]() I create a third document just now to give you a sample of what happens when I try to merge the "part 2 beginning" into the end of "part 1 end". I copied the first few paragraphs from file 3 and pasted it into a document called "Part 2 beginning". File 3 is the file which is getting ruined when I try to merge it into the first document. That is attached here with the name "Part 1 end". The first document consists of file 1 and file 2 combined what I did was to copy content from the end of that document. I wasn't sure how you would want me to prepare the two documents. If you upload two documents, one containing content from your 'first' or 'second' file, and another containing the problematic content from your 'third' file, it may be possible someone here to remedy the issue via Style redefinition or a different approach to combining the content. If you think that by my uploading some paragraphs some solution may be achieved, then I can do that. The footnotes also required directed formatting which could not be done via styles as for example the number in the text reference and the number below in the footnote are by default the same font and size and by my online search there was not a way to set them as different.Īll told there is a huge, huge amount of direct formatting in this book which has taken thousands of hours and it is not going to be amenable to system wide settings via styles. I do not think there will be a way to systematize these differences via styles especially given the degree of mixed language paragraphs. This is all in addition to the font type and size difference already mentioned. Other factors in that font were good, which was the reason for its selection. Then there is the punctuation: all the punctuation (comma, single inverted comma, double inverted comma, parenthesis, square bracket, question mark) had to be set via direct formatting for all the Hindi text as the default characters in that Nirmala font were not proper. The line spacing within paragraphs is set at the default of 1.15, but each and every Hindi paragraph I have reset to 1.25 spacing by direct formatting. The settings that I have established system wide are the page size, margin sizes, and first line indent. Short of using styles - which I do not think is possible here - What would be the way to get the fonts maintained in the second file merge just as they were in the first? And the third document has all the same direct formatting which the first two files have. So I do not think there was any way to set up all the special needs of this project using styles.īe that as it may, the second document merged perfectly well into the first. ![]() It did not seem like MS Word is used to working with multiple languages having different alphabets in the same document. did not set the Hindi in the font and font size I had requested, so I had to do it myself directly. ![]() I had tried to set up the font differences via styles using Latin and Complex Font settings. Furthermore, the line spacing is different for English and Hindi paragraphs. And there are many sentences that contain Hindi and English words. All the English words are in Times New Roman size 12, and all the Hindi words are in Nirmala size 11. I have had to do a lot of direct formatting throughout due to the fact that there are two different languages, each having their own font and font size. How can I prevent this and get the merge to maintain my original fonts? I tried just doing a traditional copy-paste of the third file into the main file, but it still changes everything to Arial 11. I do not understand why the first file merge worked perfectly, but the second merge is scrapping all the fonts and font sizes from my original third file and changing everything to Arial 11. None of the fonts in any of my three files are Arial. The third file was inserted at the end of the file, but all the fonts were converted to Arial 11. I then again put the cursor at the end of this file and went to Insert -> Objects -> Text from file -> selected third file. All fonts and font sizes from the original second file were properly maintained. The second file was inserted perfectly at the end of the first file. I opened the first file, put the cursor at the end of the file and went to Insert -> Objects -> Text from file -> selected second file. ![]() I'm in the final stages of preparing a book to send for printing, and need to merge the three separate MS Word files in which I've written all the chapters, into one file.
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