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Article #2395(Neato) Finder helps Word - can you believe?
From: Dale Parkyn
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 07:24
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 07:24
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Hi!
Maybe everyone else knew this but it makes my day...
I was wondering how to efficiently combine small individual files
into a single file. Open, copy,close, paste wasn't enough.
Using the Print Merge concepts this is what I did.
( 1) make the master document with the "DATA datafile",
"INCLUDE "partialfile"" lines and then a page break.
***The " mark is actualy the option/shift option backslash key combo.
( 2) save a new document with the datafile name.
( 3) switch to the folder and set the view by name - sorts files. Hopefully
you think ahead and use a naming scheme like file001, file002...
Select all the file icons with shift clicking, dragging etc.
Copy! You will have all the file names (at least you do with SYS7).
( 4) Back to the datafile. Remember to type the field name in the first line.
Then paste. All the file names are there!
( 5) Now Print Merge into a New Document and the compiling is nearly done.
( 6) (Could refine this step)
Merging creates a section break code after each individual file combined.
I used replacing: look for two caret d (^d^d) and replace with a single
caret d (^d).
Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!parkyn From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) Subject: (Neato) Finder helps Word - can you believe? Message-ID: <parkyn.715505079@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:24:39 GMT Lines: 33