OT: combining Word files for XyWrite project

[Alison Tartt akt@xxxxxxxx]

Using WordPort's filters, I'm going to be importing Word 97 files into
XyWrite 3+ so that I can edit them. As it turns out, the author of this
book created a separate Word file for each page in the book! So I'm dealing
with six chapters (folders in Windows Explorer), each containing zillions
of files (they fill up an entire CD). Aside from opening each file and
doing a copy/paste into a new chapter-level file, is there any batch
process that anyone knows of that will combine multiple files into one?
Ending up with ASCII files would be okay (and eliminate the need to use a
conversion tool) since the Word formatting is simple and can be sacrificed.
I'm sure a programmer could write a macro that would do this, but I
wouldn't know where to start. Are there any macro source that anyone is
aware of? If that's a naive question, then any other suggestions for
solving this tedious problem would be greatly appreciated.

Alison Tartt