On Sun, 3 May 2015 10:07:27 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-03 0:02 GMT+02:00 chuck ef <chuck...@hotmail.com>: > > > Johnny - your suggestion should work on Mac OS if one is willing to use > > the terminal, right? > > > > As far as I understand, yes. But I never had a Mac so I don't know for sure. > > > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > Another way to do this might be to make a Master Document, and enter therein the names of all the text files in sequence (perhaps from a captured directory listing?). The output document resulting from the expanded Master Document might then be edited in the usual way. There are problems: the individual documents might lose their formatting, and one would need to get one's head around the complexities of Master Documents and their structure. For a one-off task the hundred documents could have been inserted by hand using /File /Insert and an hour's work. > > > > > > > > On May 2, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > 2015-05-02 23:01 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>: > > > > > >> At 11:13 02/05/2015 -0400, Dave Mainwaring wrote: > > >> > > >>> Inserting 100 small text files into doc > > >>> Need to insert 100 plus small account record files into a single > > >>> document. Any simple easy way to do this? > > >> > > >> That depends on whether your "text files" are plain text or word > > processor > > >> text documents. If they are plain text, this may be a simple job for > > your > > >> operating system. In Windows, for example, > > >> copy a+b c > > >> creates a file c containing a concatenation of the contents of files a > > and > > >> b. You could write simple code to include multiple files if they were > > >> systematically named > > > > > > If text files and on Linux, here's what I would try to do: > > > 1. Put them all in a new, or at least empty, folder, perhaps using my > > > favourite file manager. > > > 2. Open a terminal in that folder. > > > 3. cat * > NewFile > > > Done. > > > > > > NewFile will now contain all text from the hundreds of files in that > > > folder. Open it in Apache OpenOffice and do whatever you want with it. > > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Johnny Rosenberg > > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > >> In any case, you could use > > >> copy * z > > >> to create a file z containing a concatenation of all the files whose > > names > > >> match "*". So > > >> copy *.txt z.txt > > >> would assemble all plain text files from the current folder. > > >> > > >> It's then a trivial task to convert a plain text file into whatever you > > >> mean by "doc" or "document". > > >> > > >> I trust this helps. > > >> > > >> Brian Barker > > >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
