Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!shelby!meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU
From: meldal@ithink.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Appending files
Message-ID: <40@ithink.stanford.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 21:19:30 GMT
References: <16176@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Sender: meldal@ithink.STANFORD.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 29

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