How do you combine 21 documents in a folder into one document?

[Linnet]

I have a draft novel that is currently divided into 21 chapters, all in one
folder.
I need to combine those 21 chapters into a single file.
Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

 

[macropod]

Hi Linnet,

There are two ways:
1. copy & paste all the documents (in order) into a single document
2. use INCLUDETEXT fields in a new document to link to all the chapter documents. See Word's help file for more details.

Alternatively, If all you need is a document with a table of contents, check out the TOC and RD fields. Again, see Word's help file
for more details.

Cheers

 

[Kenneth]

I have a draft novel that is currently divided into 21 chapters, all in one
folder.
I need to combine those 21 chapters into a single file.
Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

Howdy,

There certainly may be a more elegant way, but...

With that modest number, why not open a blank doc, click
Insert | File | and browse to Chapter 1. When you click on
it, the first chapter will be added, then just repeat for
each.

All the best,

 

[Graham Mayor]

Insert > file will do it, but you may find the boiler.dot add-in on my web
site a little more elegant.

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[Linnet]

Thanks for this. Very helpful. I have Word 2007 and found I needed to follow
the path INSERT > Object > Text from file. After that it was all plain
sailing. Many thanks.