Combining items

[Jon Polish]

Hi:

I think I do not understand how to correctly combine items. I select from multiple items (all text with 5 to 34 lines each) on different levels in the explorer pane. These items are not necessarily contiguous, but my experience tells me that this does not effect the outcome.

I then Paste Special | Paste Rich Text. The combined item does appear, but only the first line for each item. If I select items on the same outline level, I get the results I expect, namely the entire text of all of the selected items appear as one item.

I would like the entire text of my selected items to appear as one item with the appearance of an outline. Can this be done? If not, how can I combine my items so that I can print them all formatted so that each item does not print on a separate sheet of paper?

Jon