HOWTO: Combine Word Docs Into One Doc
[ 11 July 2007 ]
Marked under time savers, windows.
I recently ran into a slight dilemma. I downloaded some printable calendar months as Word docs, but they were each their own document by month. I wanted to put them all into one document and a simple copy-and-paste would normally have been fine. It did not work because they contained highly formatted tables and they just didn’t copy over correctly. Fortunately, Word can easily add files together.
First, click on the line you want the other Word doc to be pasted to. Then, go to Insert > File and select your other Word doc. That’s it. It will be inserted into the doc you’re in at the spot where you left the cursor.
11 Comment’s on “HOWTO: Combine Word Docs Into One Doc”
In Word 2007, selected Insert | Object | Text from File, then select the file to insert.
Well, it does not do it with highly formatted files exported from .pdf. Been there, done that, must be a better way.
This is fine if you have a few files. We recently needed to merge 89 word doc files and had to resort to software. A neat little program called Bulk File Merger zipped through this in minutes – keeping all the formatting intact. They have a Mac version as well.
Here is a link to combine word documents
Try that with 2010. By far the tallest pile of crap I have ever used. Had to have been designed outside the US, and by no one over thirty
just copy and paste it into the document that u want. easy as a snap.
There does not appear to be the facility in Word 2007 to “Insert – File”. Can one still do this ?