Good day bros. I need to create a script to take multiple word documents and combine them into one. I've done a little Word automation for accessing text but never for writing it. I have looked at nodes here like this one about writing stuff to Word, but what I want to do it take the text unmodified with formatting etc. from a source file and add it to the end of a destination file using code like: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
my $word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application') or die "Failure - word.
+ \n";
my $outputdoc = $word->Documents->Add;
my @inputdocs = qw( foo.doc bar.doc);
foreach my $f (@inputdocs) {
    my $inputdoc = $word->Documents->Open({FileName => "c:\\$f"});
    my $inputparagraphs = $inputdoc->Paragraphs;
    foreach my $par (@$inputparagraphs) {
        #how to add to end of $outputdoc?
    }
    $inputdoc->close;
}
$outputdoc->SaveAs({FileName => 'c:\\combined.doc'});

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So I guess my question is, is there a way to take a paragraph from the source doc and push it (with original formatting) onto the end of the paragraphs of the destination doc? The VBA reference for Word shows that there is a Paragraphs.Add method, but it seems that just adds a paragraph without putting anything in it. Any pointers appreciated.

In reply to Win32 OLE Word combining docs by cormanaz

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