How to Append 35 Word Files into 1

susuandme

Hello,

I am studying for my MCP, and have created over 35 separtate
Word .docx and .doc study files, a mixture of both, most are word 2007
. I am trying to create a MACRO that will combine or append
all of these or at least most of them into 1 .DOCX OR .DOC FILE.
So I will have one large Ebook, so to speak to study from.

Can someone help me create a Macro that will Append all these files:
I have for example. Doc1, Doc2, Doc3, Doc4, Doc5, etc and I want
to combine OR append them into just one MAIN.DOC . or MAIN.DOCX

Thankyou all, Ric

mikej412

I keep my notes by exam and book(s) and chapter/topic when I make them and use some sort of common naming scheme like BSCI-certguide-01.doc, BSCI-certguide-02.doc, etc and BSCI-selfstudy-01.doc, etc

Then I usually just create a new Master Document (should be in the help, unless they've renamed it to something else in the 2007 version) and insert my existing documents into it as sub-documents. I may shuffle the sub-documents around if I have notes from a couple different sources to keep the major topics from both sources together in the big print out.

astorrs

Another reason to love OneNote, it makes tasks like this a thing of the past. Check it out for your future studies.

Pash

pdfcreator from pdfforge will do what you request. check it out, its free and open source.

Netwurk

If you ever need to do something like this in a hurry and don't have access to add-ons, just do a "save as" and choose plain text (*.txt) for all docs.

If necessary, rename the files in the order you want them to go and make sure they are all in the same directory (folder).

Open up a command prompt at the directory containing your text files.

copy *.txt mstr.txt

Open up mstr.txt in the WP of your choice

Fix up the fonts, style, size, page breaks, etc.

Primitive, but it works

dynamik

astorrs wrote: »

Another reason to love OneNote, it makes tasks like this a thing of the past. Check it out for your future studies.

+1

I use it all the time.

susuandme

thank you all for those great suggestions.

With all your help , I have 1 Nice size Ebook of all my separate docx files,
Now I can study everything from one source. Thanks again.

I have word 2007. My notes and formatting are pretty bad, is there a place
in 2007 Word where I can "select everything" and it will Format Everything into
a Beautiful Style or Template with the correct fonts, Headlines, spacing, color
etc. Sort of a premade template, because my notes combined into the ebook although
not too bad, if arranged more Neat and Organized, and Styled properly would have
a great effect on helping me study. Any idea how I can format the "entire" document
now that I have combined all the small documents. Thanks again, Ric

hypnotoad

I would open thirty-five files and control-a, control-c, alt-f4, alt-tab, control-v. It ain't purdy but it's fun for the first 35 files.

deadpool287

hypnotoad wrote: »

I would open thirty-five files and control-a, control-c, alt-f4, alt-tab, control-v. It ain't purdy but it's fun for the first 35 files.

that was most definitely amusing