Word page numbers incorrect after combining documents

[Eagle72]

Hi,
After combining several Word documents into one master document using VBA from Excel, I find that some of them automatically restart the page numbering that I have in the master document footer. The master document is created using a template that has a footer showing the page numbers. Is there a command that I can use to make sure that the page numbering of all sections that are brought in continue from the previous section? I find I can't even manually highlight the entire finished Word document and correct the page numbering. Also, the Word document template has a watermark set. Sometimes that will get removed after a certain document is inserted into the master document. I'd also love a solution for that problem.
Thanks.

 

[Eagle72]

I should have put the versions of my software in my original post. I am running Office 2003. I have Excel and Word 2003 (SP3) with Visual Basic 6.5.

One thing I tried was the ActiveDocument.Repaginate command (I had to code it wdApp.ActiveDocument.Repaginate because I'm controlling the Word document assembly from Excel) but it did not correct the page numbers in the footer. Some of the documents that I pull in have their own footer formatting with hard-coded starting page numbers.