Organize, Store & Share: Easily Merge Your Documents

Do you have multiple resources you wish to combine in one information package, or do you wish to organize, store, or neatly share documents using just one file? By using PDFen’s merge tools you can combine, convert and merge countless documents in one go.

How? Choose one of the 11 merge options which best fits your file type. Let’s run them down one by one.

Merge PDF

When? To combine individual PDF documents

How does it work?

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘PDFs’

2. Drop up to 20 PDF or ZIP files into the software

3. If you wish, add a cover page

4. Press ‘convert’ and download directly.

Note: Merging multiple files into one larger file will only cost one credit, no matter the amount of files uploaded.

Merge files/images

When? If you’d like to combine JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIF, HEIC, WEBP, TIFF, and/or TIF documents.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Files/images’

2. Drop up to 20 compatible files into the software

3. Pick the preferred page size and page orientation for your PDF.

4. Click ‘show more options’ to adjust margins (white spaces) at either of the edges of the document

5. If you wish, add a cover page

6. Press ‘convert’ and download your result directly.

Note: converting files to PDF costs one credit each. Merging files always costs just 1 credit. Merging 5 images into one PDF will thus cost 6 credits (conversion+merging).

Merge multiple emails

When? In case you want to organize, archive or bundle your (important) emails for future reference.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Email’

2. Drop up to 20 .eml, .msg, or .zip files into the software

3. Choose whether to include just the email body (the email message), the email body and attachments, or just the attachments.

4. If you wish, add a cover page

5. Press ‘convert’ and download your result directly.

Note: When uploading ZIP files, all non email content will be skipped automatically. So no filtering needed! 

Merge Word Documents

When? If you wish to merge individual word documents together in one PDF file.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Word documents’

2. Drop up to 20 Doc, Docx, or ZIP files into the software

3. Specify a page range if you'd only like to merge specific parts of the documents.

4. Choose whether to convert headings, whether to convert bookmarks, and whether to convert to PDF/A.

5. If you wish, add a cover page

6. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

Note: consider using continuous page numbering in Word. Documents are converted separately, and without continuous page numbering, it can restart for every individual Word document. 

Merge Excel Documents

When? When you wish to combine different Xls or Xlsx files into one neat PDF file.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Excel documents’

2. Drop up to 20 XLS, XLSX or ZIP files into the software

3. Choose your preferred page size and orientation

4. Select whether the content should fit to page. Using this setting, every Excel worksheet will be forced onto one sheet. Content might be rescaled to make sure they neatly fit onto one page.

5. Enable 'autofit content' (recommended). This will make sure the cells are in Excels are widened so that all content is visible. Similar to Excel AutoFit Column Width

6. Choose whether to enable 'preserve metadata'; metadata of the Excel (author, title, subject) will be copied in the PDF document

7. If you wish, add a cover page

8. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately. 

Merge Powerpoint Documents

When? Useful when you want to archive or present multiple Powerpoint documents in one, organized PDF document.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Powerpoint documents’

2. Drop up to 20 PPT, PPTX or ZIP files into the software

3. If you only want to merge parts of the Powerpoints, apply a range

4. Choose how to include speaker notes

5. Select whether to include metadata (author, title, subject) and whether to include hidden slides in the PDF output

6. If you wish, add a cover page

7. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

Note: Powerpoint animations and transitions are not preserved in PDF format

Merge AutoCAD Documents

When? Handy if you want to make your AutoCAD documents more accessible and easy to share, or easily organize your AutoCAD documents.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘AutoCAD documents’

2. Drop up to 20 DWF, DWFX, DWG, DXF, or ZIP files into the software

3. Choose your preferred page size and page orientation

4. Pick your page layoutmode. With 'default' AutoCAD picks automatically. For professional drawings, 'all is usually the best choice; for previews or geometry checks, 'model' is faster and cleaner

5. Adjust the color mode (true colours is default) and choose whether to include all layers or only the visible and printable ones

6. If you wish, add a cover page

7. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

Merge PostScript Documents

When? Recommended in case you’d like to standardize and combine all kinds of PostScript documents.

Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘PostScript documents’

1. Drop up to 20 EPS, PS, PRN, and/or ZIP files into the software

2. Enable embed fonts (recommended); fonts will be embedded in the PDF, avoiding rendering issues

3. Choose whether to subset fonts; if enabled only the used characters will be embedded in the PDF, saving file size, but limiting future editing

4. Pick your preferred PDF version (1.7 is recommended)

5. If you wish, add a cover page

6. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

Merge eBook Documents

When? Relevant for combining all kinds of eBook documents.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘eBook documents’

2. Drop up to 15 EPUB, MOBI, DJVU and/or ZIP files into the software

3. Choose your preferred page size

4. If you wish, add a cover page

5. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

Note: Nearly all features of the eBook are accurately converted. Only interactive features like hyperlinks may be converted to static text.

Merge Office Documents

When? Use when you wish to efficiently group, organize or store many different file types simultaneously.

1. Go to ‘Merge’ and then to ‘Office documents’

2. Drop up to 25 DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV and/or ZIP files into the software

3. If you wish, add a cover page

4. Press ‘convert’ and download your result immediately.

The bottom line

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