I have 2 Microsoft Word documents and I want to make them one that I can print as a double sided sheet. How?

Question

Each document is a page long. The tabs and margins are different on each document so when I try to copy and paste one on the next page of the other the second document gets all screwed up. I tried to merge them, but either I didn't do it right or it doesn't work for me. How do I make these one document so I can print it as one double sided document?

Answer 1

Try this:

1. Find the Show/Hide button on the menu bar. It looks like this ¶. If it's not selected, select it. It will turn on the paragraph mark display. (If it's already turned on, congratulations! You're ahead of most Word users.)
2. Add an empty paragraph after the last paragraph on one of the pages.
3. Click between the two paragraph marks.
4. Click the Insert->Break menu item.
5. Click the Page Break radio button.
6. Click OK.
7. Select and Copy the other page.
8. Insert the copied text after the page break you added above (if you're in Normal layout mode) or on the second page (if you're in Page Layout mode).
9. If the ¶'s disturb you, you can turn them off, but you'll learn more about formatting with Word if you leave them on.

That should do it. Good luck.

Answer 2

Depending on what your printer allows, to simplify things, print one document on one side of the paper, turn it over and print the second document on the reverse side. If the tabs, margins and other criteria are different enough that it screws up the document to try to merge them, then don't.

Answer 3

Print the first document and exit word. Then, take the printed an put it in the feed trady with the letters facing upwards and the bottom of the document on your side (while you are facing the printer). Now print the second. It should be what you want.

Answer 4

Printing on both sides of a piece of paper is generally a feature of your printer. Some printers will do it automatically. Others you have to reinsert the sheet(s) manually when the printer driver tells you to.

You can easily combine both documents into one by cutting and pasting the one you want to be the back page into the first page document.

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Answer 5

if the end result is all that matters, just flip the paper right side up to print the other document at the back.

if it is really important that they will become one document, you can configure "page setup" to apply the different margins from the second page forward. file -> page setup -> apply to (all tabs have this)

Answer 6

copy the text only from one document and paste it into the other. When windows asks if you want to keep the source format, say no.

You may have to fix the pasted document depending on how the source formating worked.