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Subject:inserting Word .docs as graphics From:"Jean Richardson" <jean -at- bjrcom -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:14 Nov 2002 08:44:28 -0800
I've been helping a friend on the phone this morning with a perplexing
problem. She has a set of Word documents that are essentially a set of
forms and the instructions for using the forms. She has been scanning the
forms, outputting the scanned documents as graphics, and then importing the
graphics into the main Word document. All of these documents have headers
and footers, and she needs the headers and footers in each form to display
within the headers and footers of the main Word document. There is no need
to create a TOC or index.
The challenge is to skip the cumbersome scanning phase and somehow insert
the form files as graphics. She has tried .pdf'ing the forms and inserting
them in Word as Objects, but all she gets is the icon image. The field Link
and Ref options also don't do the trick because of formatting problems and
dropping the form's headers and footers.
Any suggestions?
-- Jean
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