Thank you all very much.  The number and prompt replies has been
tremendously appreciated, and helpful.

Quick sum: almost everyone recommended just exporting each view as an
image file as easier and perhaps visually preferable.  Recommendations
as to file format range from wmf, eps, tiff, jpg,.  Several competing
graphics apps were suggested. I'll probably use illustrator since I'm
quite familiar with it.

Others recomended using AV import capabilities or installing extensions
that make important multiple aprs feasible.  I've copied those
responses below for anyone who may be considering such an approach.

Thanks again!  This is a great web community!
Phil Crossley

Solution 2
   --AV has a menu item for importing a project, and it brings the
views,
   layouts and any other scripts/tools created in that project into the
   project you're importing into.  You should be able to start a new
project, then import
   all of the others into that "master" one.  Next, you can set up a
layout for
   the  poster, open each layout for the maps that you want to put on
the
   poster, and copy/paste them into your main layout (and obviously
move them
   around,

Solution 3

--On our homepage http://www.springing.ch/tools you find a free
   extension (docmanager) to copy doc's from one apr to an other. Docs
  may be layouts, views, tables etc.

--a  free extension which is called
   Layoutsave.avx which can save just the layout without
   having to save the project. And you can open the
   layout in any project. It's only limitation is that it
   cannot save images. If you require it, please e-mail
   me at wanamid@forestry.gov.my.

--There is an extension out  there called ODB extension that allows you
to transfer either a view or
   a layout and all associated views.    you can find it at the esri
scripts page
   under the heading Arcview Document Saver (ODB) Extension created by
Stanley
   Hammer. Just place it within your Ext32 folder.
   You could just have the students work on separate projects and then
   when its time to create the final map just import all the different
views by
   means of the ODB extension. This way the students can work on their
own projects
   separately and then at the end you can import those individual
views.


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Phil L. Crossley, Ph.D.
Assist. Prof. of Geography
Dept. of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Western State College
Gunnison, CO 81231
(970) 943-2800