Macro to combine multiple files into one

[NisusUser]

I would like to find a way to take scores of 2-4 page .rtf files in one folder and combine them into one file in the order of the file names (the filenames start with prefixes such as 01.01, 01.02, 02.01, etc.)

I actually do not need a combined .rtf file. Rather, I need a PDF of the content of all of those .rtf files in order.

(The folder has lots of other files with other suffixes besides .rtf files.)

Is there a quick way to do this?

Thanks!

[phspaelti]

A quick way?
Here is a macro that should work according to your specs, as far as I can make them out.
The pdfs will be saved in the same folder with the name with the prefix removed.

[NisusUser]

A quick way?
Here is a macro that should work according to your specs, as far as I can make them out.
The pdfs will be saved in the same folder with the name with the prefix removed.

Thank you, Philip!

The macro required that I select a folder, so I selected the folder where all the files are. But then it gave me this error:

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I think the macro failed to ask me where to save the file or the file name. I guess it would be good if it would let me choose a file name.

I really appreciate your help with this!

[phspaelti]

If it gives you this error, I must assume that the files are named in a way different from what I took to be your description.
The macro here assumes that your files have names like this:
01.01myfile.rtf
01.02myfile.rtf
02.01myotherfile.rtf
… and so on.
Maybe you should give a more concrete example of how the files are named?

[NisusUser]

Maybe you should give a more concrete example of how the files are named?

I probably misled you somehow.

OK, I'll send a screenshot to you personally, but here are some things I observed:

All files start with

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##.##

Sometimes there are

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##.##a

and

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 ##.##b

Other than the letters after the numbers, in all other cases that I observed, there always is a space after the second set of two numbers (.##space).