At 11:25 AM -0400 7/29/06, Bob Goodwin wrote: >Can someone tell me how to combine a number of >text files into one file? > >I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files Those are not text files. That is your main problem. >that I would like to combine into one file containing >all of that text. Nothing I have tried is acceptable >to open office? > >I am running updated FC5 and have been trying to do >this from the command line, then opening the result >in open office. That won't work. You need to do this in OOo. It's what knows how to handle .odf files. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>