Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Combining Word Documents.
Word provides a very easy way to combine documents, without the typical cut-and-paste routine. This is great for boilerplate text in your document. All you need to do is use the INCLUDETEXT field within a document. Follow these steps:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: 
{ INCLUDETEXT "MyFile.Doc" }
At this point, the specified file should appear within your document. If it doesn't (for instance, if you get an error message), then make sure you typed the document name correctly, and that you included a full path name. (You must include the full path name if the document is in a directory different from the one in which the current document is located.)
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (13137) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Combining Word Documents.
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2019-03-12 13:13:23
Thomas Redd
Make a master document with some documents. That would work easier for me on a large project.
2019-03-11 15:47:00
Jon Eric Hollmann
Much quicker to just insert the word doc as an object. Text from file.
2014-11-26 10:05:57
John McMullen
What if you want to iterate over all the files in a folder (chapter01.docx, chapter02.docx, and so on) to create a giant file for printing? I was sure I had seen that tip somewhere, but darned if I can find it.
Because that's just what I want to do, now.
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