Method for Combining Multiple Word Documents into One?

Insert > File. You have to do it one at a time, but it appears to work.

answered Mar 23, 2011 at 17:46 user479 user479 In 2020, just drag&drop files to the Word window. Commented Mar 27, 2020 at 12:07

Use Automator. It has a "Combine Word Documents" option as one of its premade Document Library items.

answered Mar 3, 2016 at 4:27 21 1 1 bronze badge

In MS Word 2011 for Mac, no, there is no method for combining MULTIPLE files into one big document at the same time. You can, however, combine the files one at a time. Here's what you do: Click INSERT / FILE, and follow the prompts to insert one file at a time.

answered Feb 4, 2014 at 17:05

In Word 15.40 (Office 2016 Mac), I've successfully merged multiple files into one with this process:

  1. Open a new document and use the View menu > Master Document option.
  2. Open up a Finder window to the directory containing your files
  3. Click and drag files into the new document. This should copy the contents into the master document.
answered Feb 27, 2018 at 13:53 129 4 4 bronze badges

This doesn’t seem to work anymore. Dragging documents into the Master Document view just adds the first page of each document as an object.

Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 11:53

The Automator approach should work, but returns an error.

I found a workaround: Nisus, another word processor for the mac, let's you simply drag in .docx files from the finder. I selected 120 files, dragged them in and it was done in three minutes.