abdenour@mist.cs.orst.edu (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI) (02/23/90)
I have aprox. 100 MS Word doc files which range from 1-50 pages long. I want to merge them all into one large file. Is there a quick way to do it in Word 4.0 besides having to open each file in a window and cut and paste manually. Or are there programs that do that? what about also just straigth text files? Any help will be appretiated! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /\ ! ~~~~Hayaa Ala-falaah Abdennour Moussaoui || _~_~_ Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Oregon State University ||(_____) Laa Illaha Ila Allah~~~~ email=abdenour@mist.cs.orst.edu |||_|_|_|
meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) (02/24/90)
In article <16176@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> abdenour@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI) writes: > >I have aprox. 100 MS Word doc files which range from 1-50 pages long. >I want to merge them all into one large file. Is there a quick way to >do it in Word 4.0 besides having to open each file in a window and cut and >paste manually. Or are there programs that do that? what about also just >straigth text files? You probably have to open all the files. Here is one way to do it without cutting & pasting: Open all but the last file. In each of them, identify the next file as the "next file" in the document dialog box. Then mail merge to a new document. Voila! -- Sigurd Meldal Hard mail: ERL 456 | Internet: meldal@anna.stanford.edu Computer Systems Lab.| Stanford University | BitNet: meldal%anna.stanford.edu@forsythe.bitnet Stanford CA 94305 | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal USA | phone: +1 415 723 6027 fax: +1 415 725 7398
straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka) (02/24/90)
In article <40@ithink.stanford.edu> meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) writes: |In article <16176@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> abdenour@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI) writes: |> |>I have aprox. 100 MS Word doc files which range from 1-50 pages long. |>I want to merge them all into one large file. Is there a quick way to |>do it in Word 4.0 besides having to open each file in a window and cut and |>paste manually. Or are there programs that do that? what about also just |>straigth text files? | |You probably have to open all the files. Here is one way to do it |without cutting & pasting: What about doing a mass upload to UNIX(R) (provided that they are plain, text files (probably not, though)), catting them together, and then downloading them back to the Mac. I imagine that there is some possibility of screening through the non-ASCII if the files are binary, but I suspect that the likelihood of success is low, especially if the files are fast-saved native Word format. -- Richard Straka AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UUCP: att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane ARPA: straka@ihlpf.att.com syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.