On 04/11/2008 10:04 AM, M Singh wrote: > 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.
Perhaps this macro will do the trick? http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#108803 Combine Files [Note: I've not tried it] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
