2015-05-03 10:24 GMT+02:00 Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>: > 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,
Well, if the hundred files were pure text files, losing formatting would at least not be a problem… > 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 > >
