Hello, I am doing a proof of concept to research the feasibility of combining multiple Word docs into one, while keeping the list of styles in the combined document neat and tidy. So far I’m not having much luck.
I’ve attached 4 test documents for reference. I am trying to combine these 4 test documents into one document. Background follows:
When I combine the 4 documents using ImportFormatMode.UseDestinationStyles, in the combined document, the “Heading 2” stock Word style, the “Heading 3” stock Word style, and several other stock styles don’t retain all of their style rules. However, the list of styles is nice and neat and tidy. No funky “_0”, “_1”, etc. style names are added to the document.
When I combine the 4 documents using ImportFormatMode.KeepSourceFormatting, in the combined document, the “Heading 2” stock Word style, the “Heading 3” stock Word style, and several other stock Word styles do retain all of their style definitions. So the final document looks ok. But then the process creates all sorts of duplicate style names. I see “Heading 1”, “Heading 1_0”, “Heading 1_1”, etc.
I want the final document to look good/consistent, but I don’t want all of the “Heading 1_0”, “Heading 1_1”, etc. styles created. I expect all of the styles to be defined by name in “1-Title.docm” and then those style names used by all subsequent documents that I combine. How can I accomplish this?
This will be a critical deal breaker for us because, we are researching how can we auto generate Word documents that are hundreds of pages long. Where those generated documents are then edited by our staff. And where we want the generated documents to look good/consistent, but not have hundreds of duplicate style rules. So that our staff don’t see hundreds / thousands of duplicate style names whilst working on their auto generated documents.
I’m not sure if it’s feasible, but that’s the end goal that we’re trying to work toward. Any assistance / source demos of how this can be done would be greatly greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Shan