# Microsoft Word 97 Help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-97-help/57272>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-97-help/57272 "2001-03-08T22:01:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-97-help/57272/1 "2001-03-08T22:01:34Z")

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I need to combine four documents (book proposal + 3 chapters of a book) into one big document. Copying and pasting a whole chapter at once does horrible things to the formatting; copying and pasting the chapter 1 paragraph at a time would take forever.

What’s an up-and-coming writer to do? Is there an easy way to do this that I’m overlooking? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jmullaney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@jmullaney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmullaney)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-97-help/57272/2 "2001-03-08T22:20:56Z")

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Try opening one doc and inserting the other docs using the “insert file” command.

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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-97-help/57272/3 "2001-03-08T22:24:10Z")

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Try “insert --\> file”.