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Combine two documents, one a Word doc and one not...

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Updated July 1, 2014

asked on June 27, 2014

I need to import Job Descriptions into LF. Each JD currently has 3 documents outside LF, 1-Word version, 2-pdf version, 3-draft version. We want to keep all three together as one, but different versions. Today, I did a drag-n-drop from G: drive into LF and it successfully combined the Word and pdf versions, but left separate the draft Word version because the word "draft" was in the name. I thought I could then drag the one on top of the other in LF to combine those two, but it doesn't work.

Is there another way to get these two pieces together as one? I know I can link the two, but would rather have them as one.

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replied on June 30, 2014

As mentioned above, you can't combine a PDF and a Word document in Laserfiche, but you can save multiple file types over each other as different versions. Is this what you are interested in doing? If so, you can import a document as a new version of a previously saved document from the versions tab in that document's metadata:

If you import by dragging and dropping, a new version will only be created if the two documents share the same name. For more information about versioning, check out our online help files!

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replied on June 27, 2014

You can't combine Word documents and PDF. You can, however, convert them all to images and then combine the image pages into one document.

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replied on June 30, 2014

I get asked this question all the time and Miruna is correct. This cannot be done within Laserfiche. However there are 3rd party products out there such as Ecopy PDF Pro Office that are designed to do exactly this kind of thing.

http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/ecopy/ecopy-pdf-pro-office/index.htm

Hope this helps!

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replied on July 1, 2014 • Show version history

I misread the question at first. I see what you mean now. Yes Jason is right by having multiple versions of the same document. Sadly in order to create a new version of the document it will need to have the same name prior to importing in order to 'trigger' the versioning.

However I learned something new today. Didn't know you could have different file types in versioning. Good to know!

@Laserfiche - Seeing that this feature exists. Could we raise a feature request to have an extension column available in the version history window? Cheers!

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replied on July 1, 2014

Hi Connie,

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