How to merge multiple Word documents in a single file

Microsoft Word is one of the most popular text editing software out there and users love it because of the features it offers.  While it’s fun to make documents in Microsoft Word, editing them can become a time-consuming task especially when you are combining multiple Word documents in a single file. Usually a lot of people, copy and paste their text data in their main document however doing that can sometimes mess up things when there are a lot of pages. Hence to avoid these problems, you can use the Insert function that comes with Microsoft Word. While using it is easy, not many people are aware of how it’s done. Hence iu this guide, we are going to show you How to merge multiple Word documents in a single file. Without waiting further, let’s get started.

How to merge multiple Word documents in a single file

Step 1: Bring up Microsoft Word on your PC. You can either open it from your start menu or you can directly open the document in which you want to merge the files.

Step 2: Once Microsoft Word is running on your PC, click on the Insert tab from the top and search for the “Object” option.

Step 3: Once you find Object in the Insert tab press a small triangle next to it and select  Text from File from the dropdown menu that pops up on your screen.

Step 4: Choose the word files that you want to merge with your main document and press the insert button. It is to be noted that users can select multiple files at once by dragging or selecting them by pressing Ctrl on their on keyboard.

Have a look at the images below to see how it’s done.

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That’s all, folks! This is the simplest method to merge files on Microsoft Word. Were we helpful? Let us know in the comments below and if you liked this guide then don’t forget to share it using the Social Media buttons.