<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What I do, and I often have to do it, is make a new Word file, INSERT the small files into the new file<br>save the new file and reopen it in wordpad, notepad, or something similar. (Also good for getting<br>the HTML cruft out of web pages. <br><br>Actually, this is all done in Open Office, on a Fedora 10 system, but it seems also to work in<br>MS whatever.<br><br>Even better is to take the content.xml part of an odt file and run it through an XSL filter, but there is a long<br>learning curve to that, and I haven't really completed it yet<br><br><br>Pierre MacKay<br></div></div></body></html>