How can I combine several Word documents into one without copying and pasting the content

Is there a way to take a series of word documents and insert them into one document without copying a pasteing all the info.  Ex: I have 15 appendices that are separate word docs but wor like to put them together in one.

You need to set up a Master Document and its associated Sub Documents.

In WORD 2007:-

View tab

Document Views

 - group.

Click:-

Outline

In the top left hand corner you should now see a tab called:-

Outlining

Click that tab called:-

Outlining

You should now see a group called:-

Master Document  

It's in here that you can create a Master Document with its associated Sub Documents.

For future reference you need to post WORD issues in the Word Forum which is here:-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word?sort=lastreplydate&dir=desc&tab=Threads&status=unanswered&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=Questions&tm=1421050845004

You need to set up a Master Document and its associated Sub Documents.

Dangerous advice indeed. If the OP does that they risk losing all their work!!! This is a well known feature of using Master Documents and has been documented for years. See, for example:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm

plus the innumerable forum posts from people who have found out too late.

The safe way of combining multiple documents without copy/paste is to use Insert>Object>Text from File. If you want, you can also do the insertion using the 'Insert as link' option via this method, so that changes in the source documents are reflected in the target document. 

Is there a way to take a series of word documents and insert them into one document without copying a pasteing all the info.  Ex: I have 15 appendices that are separate word docs but wor like to put them together in one.

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If you exercise careful control and know what you are doing when using this functionality you should not run into any problems when using it for the purposes that you have outlined.

Actually there is a simpler way, at least on my Version 14.7.1.

Open the first document, place the cursor where you want to insert the next document. Go to Insert>File> return

Thats all there is!

Actually there is a simpler way, at least on my Version 14.7.1.

Open the first document, place the cursor where you want to insert the next document. Go to Insert>File> return

That has already been suggested (with the correct steps for Word on a PC) - see my previous post.