Combining Pages files in Pages '09

[yojitani]

I can't work out how to combine files in Pages, so please advise! If I go to Insert->Choose it looks like I can add other files, but not pages files. I have about 10 pages documents that need to be merged into one single document. I know I could copy and paste but I am concerned about a number of formatting issues. Some documents have fairly complicated section breaks or are fairly image-heavy, for example. One document seems to choke everything up when I copy from it (the one with lots of images etc - it's around 10MB large).

Thanks!

 

[commerjare]

Hi,

Any luck sorting out this problem? I'm having the same issue...

Thanks,

Jared.

 

[yojitani]

Yes, in fact. I got an answer on the apple forums. Here it is for you:

Open your files & show thumbnails. Sections have a yellow border around all of the pages in that section. Now click on the page in the thumbnail pane & copy. If the file is more than one page & you only want one, you'll need to insert a section break to separate the pages. Then go to your other file, click in the thumbnail pane & paste. The whole copied page will be pasted in. Repeat with another section. Styles will copy over with the sections but headers & footers will not.

This works. Here's the thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2027660&tstart=0