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Combine PDF Files Using PDFelement
If you have many documents that you need to organize, you may have the need to combine PDFs into one file to make your work more efficient. But how can you combine PDF files? In this article you can learn five efficient methods to easily combine multiple PDFs into one document with PDFelement.
Video of Combining PDF Files
PDFelement is also equipped with powerful editing and annotation tools, enabling you to make quick and accurate changes to your text, images and fonts. This saves you time and improves your productivity. You can also add stamps or sticky notes to your PDF file and highlight text using this tool. Another amazing feature is OCR, which can turn scanned PDFs into fully editable and searchable documents without losing the original layout or formatting.
Method 1: Right-Click to Combine PDF
Step 1. Select and Right Click PDFs
Hold the "Ctrl" key, to select your files one by one, then right-click the file to select the "Combine to PDF" menu.
Step 2. Combine PDF
PDFelement will be opened directly, and in the new popup window, you can click the "+ Add file" button to select more files to be combined. Also, you can select the pages that you want to combine under the "Page Range" tab. After setting, you can click the "Apply" button to start to combine these files. Then the combined PDF file will be opened in PDFelement.
Check more details about how to use the right-click method to create PDF files and convert PDF files to other format files.
Method 2: How to Combine PDFs from Home Window
Managing large documents can be time-consuming and challenging. By combining multiple PDFs, you can increase productivity and improve the organization by easily modifying the page order of your document.
Step 1. Load Multiple PDF Documents
Launch PDFelement on your computer and then click the "Combine PDF" button on the Home window. Browse your local folder to drag and drop multiple PDF documents straight into the pop-up window. Note that you can combine documents with completely different formats into one PDF.
Alternatively, After launching PDFelement and click "Back" to go to the main interface. Then select the "Tool" > "Combine Files" button and choose files to add.
Step 2. Start to Combine
After adding all your documents into the combine window, you can manually select the pages that you want to combine. Besides, click the "..." gear behind "Output folder" to select an output folder to save the combined PDF document to, then press "Apply" to start the combined process.
PDFelement is a common solution when you need a program to combine PDFs, not only because it merges PDFs together, but because it also allows you to combine different file types like PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, and more into one PDF. Learn more about how to combine word documents into one PDF.
PDFelement also has the Mac version, so here are the steps to combine PDF files on Mac.
Method 3: How to Combine PDF Pages by Thumbnail
Step 1. Open a PDF File
Open up a PDF document using the "Open files" button in PDFelement's main program window.
Step 2. Combine with Another PDF
Click the "Thumbnail" button on the top left. Then, you can drag your other PDF into the thumbnail column.
After that, your selected PDF will be inserted into this PDF. That's quite easy and quick to combine other PDF pages with your opened PDF.
Method 4: Combine PDF Pages into One Single Image
Step 1. Open a PDF File
Open your PDF document by clicking the "Open files" button in PDFelement's Home window.
Step 2. Combine PDF Pages into a Single Image
Go to the "Page" menu, and then right-click the page and select "Adjoin all pages into one single image". Alternatively, you can right click the page in the thumbnail pane to Adjoin all pages into one single image.
Step 3. Select Page Ranges
In the pop-up window, you can select the page range, including all pages, even pages, or odd pages. In addition, PDFelement allows you to set the Frame of the combined PDF，such as border width and border color. Furthermore, you can zoom in or zoom out to preview the combined PDF on the right box of the windows. That's very visual, and you can try it. Once done, click the "OK" button. Then the "Save As" window pops up, making you choose an output folder, and you can also select one image format, such as JPG, PNG, or others. Finally, click the "Save As" button to save the combined file.
Method 5: How to Combine PDFs by Inserting Pages
Step 1. Open a PDF File
Open your PDF document within PDFelement by taping on the "Open files" button in the Home window.
Step 2. Combine PDF Pages
Go to the "Page" on the top menu bar and select the "Insert"> "From PDF" option to browse and select another PDF document to open.
Step 3. Select Pages from Another PDF
Now, in the pop-up "Insert" window, you can select all pages or only a range of pages in this PDF document to combine with the opened PDF document. Also, you can set the page Location in the PDF.
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Audrey Goodwin
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