Re: OT: combining Word files for XyWrite project

[Alison Tartt akt@xxxxxxxx]

Okay Rene,
Please bear with me here. The DIR command, that I know. As for the rest. .
... You're saying I can do all this from within XyWrite, and just leave the
Word files alone (with no conversion first)?

Alison

>>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?
>
>What I would do is give a DIR command, take the list of files from the
>screen, use Pfunc to add BC merge in front of every line, remove
>unnecessary files, change the order where required, and voila, all you need
>to do is run this to concenate all those file into one.
>
>The XY experts naturally can come up with something more clever, but the
>above works fine for me.
>
>
>-- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo