Brian Barker wrote: > At 21:38 10/04/2008 -0700, Singh Madhusudan wrote: >>I have a bunch of doc files that I need to concatenate into a large >>document, which I will then need to edit (extensively) for a report. >>Can Openoffice do this in any way ? > > Yes. There's the obvious way: just open each document in turn, > select all the text, and copy and paste it into a single (new?) > document. But there is a neater way: > > o Start a new Writer document (or open one of your existing > documents, if appropriate). > o Position the cursor where you want the next document's contents to > appear. > o Go to Insert | File... and browse to the relevant document file. > o Repeat as necessary. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker
I guess I was not very clear, but I am looking for a neat command line way like cat file1 file2 file3 > file. I have something like 30 files and the way you suggest might be a trifle tedious :) But I will follow your second advice as it appears to be better than the obvious alternative. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
