[Macpartners] printing a book from separate chapters?

[Rebecca E. Heiser]

Arthur,

You may want to take a look at using a Master document with Word. Essentially, you set up a master document, add sub-documents  (your chapters) to it. Take a look at the following kb article to see if this will work for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180142

-Becky


On May 20, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Justin Fleming <jtflem at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
> 
> Printing multiple documents at once on the Mac is pretty straightforward.  To do so, you can just open the printer queue of your choice from System Preferences > Print & Scan and then drag and drop all of the files you would like to print from the Finder directly into the printer's queue.
> 
> However, since you also want the pages in your Word documents to be numbered sequently over the entirety of the book, I think that you will need to combine each of these separate files into one Word file before printing.  You can do this the old-fashioned way, copying and pasting the contents from each of your disparate files into a combined Word document, and your page numbers should then take care of themselves.  Alternately, you can try using an automated workflow for combining and printing your Word files for you.  Here is a screenshot of a workflow in Automator (which is included with every Mac running OS X 10.4 and later and lives in the Applications folder) that you might try and run.  I've also attached the workflow file that you can open with Automator.
> 
> <Screen Shot 2013-05-20 at 12.47.28 PM.png>
> 
> 
> I've also attempted to use the "Combine Word Documents" Automator action, but it doesn't end up working for me for some inexplicable reason.
> 
> Good luck with your inquiry, and I hope this answer helps.
> 
> ~ Justin
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> On May 20, 2013, at 11:51 AM, arthur steinberg <arthurs at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > i am using an apple macbook pro, running mac os x 6.8, and microsoft office for mac 2011.  i want to print a whole book from disparate files (each chapter was a separate file), and have the pages numbered sequentially over the whole book.  can someone explain to me how to do this?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > arthur
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