Gary, That is the best explanation of anything to do with a computer that I have ever seen ever. I felt like crying with relief. Thank so much. I appreciate your generosity and clarity.
Can’t thank you enough for this video! I watched this video about a week ago and today I created a 35 page PDF using this method. I had so many different scans and I was able to simply drag and drop into Preview! Made my life so much easier...Thank you, Gary!!! 👍🏽👍🏽
you prolly dont give a damn but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me!
This is an excellent tutorial. You answered all the questions I had and more! (I never knew about the crop selection add facility). Clear and consise; this is what all tutorials should be like. Thank you!
All of us NON-techies very much appreciate what a great teacher you are! I refer to your stuff often (I usually need refresher courses - lol) Thank you!
Hi Gary, your tutorials are great. I learn so much from you. Short and clean with an excellent presentation. The PDF-functions were completely new for me. Greetings from Germany Ciao Jack
That is so, so nice to know. Haven't had to do this for a while, but when you need to combine PDFs a simple solution like this is a golden. Thank you, Gary.
I've had Mac for years and I love its basic apps, but I didn't know about this coolest feature! I'm so happy to know it's possible to do this with just Preview but I little sad that I didn't have this information earlier. Thank you so much!
Thanks Gary for explaining such a useful and necessary task we all need, but usually forget how to do! Especially great was your clear explanation of the complete process.
Thank you again for another amazing tutorial. I had a problem in the past with dragging and dropping files and pdf's into the sidebar and saving the document afterward. Even if I saved the new pdf. document, the sidebar files wouldn't be included. To resolve this, I would print that pdf. as a pdf from the print menu. This was my workaround. I am sure it was operator error. I am doing it your way now, and it seems to work perfectly. I can't tell you how many hours I have invested in this program, using my workaround. This is much better.
For some reason insert page opens the documents in a new preview window, any thoughts as to why? I used to be able to select multiple documents and open them all in one preview window but now this doesn't happen. Always appreciate how easy to understand your tutorials are, thank you!
Thank you!! I've been using an online tool, and then I was like maybe my mac already has a method for this, and here it is. You saved me from headaches and potential viruses
Thank you for the helpful steps. I am working on my employer's ten-year-old MAC. We are able to add the thumbnails, but whether I use keystrokes to save or FILE-SAVE, the altered PDF always reverts to a single page and shows no sign of the combining steps. Do some MACs have restrictions; are there restrictions I would be able to bypass?
Another excellent video which I seem to have missed from almost 2 years ago! - perhaps you can create a video explaining how to "save" or export, each page in a PDF file to a stand alone PNG. Exporting from preview into PNG seems to create a multi page PDF document ? Seems that exporting to jpg on an individual basis works, but not png. So the question is, how can a pdf document be exported such that each page is either a standalone png or a standalone jpg? Affinity photo can read a pdf file and with some trickery, on a page by page basis it seems, can export a page to pdf or jpg? I will investigate if it is possible using that tool to export each page.
You’re out here doing the Lord’s work 😂 - thank you! It has been so long since I did this and I couldn’t remember. You taught me new things and reminded me of what I used to know. Appreciate it!
Sorry, I'm a little slow... If one of those documents has page numbering ON it does that change? (I'd like to keep it, it's the main part of the document). Much thanks, so good!
Do you mean page numbers from an app like Pages or Word? As a PDF, those are just more elements on the pages. Merging doesn't alter the contents of the pages so it wouldn't change. Try it and see.
Hey Gary, I love your stuff, and I'm a Mac user since OS8 and an iPhone user since 2009. I'd love to support your channel, but no way will I give a cent to Patreon. Can't you give us another option?
I'm pretty stuck at the moment, I have over 200 .txt files to combine into 1 single pdf file, but every program I download either has a limit on the number of files you can convert into a pdf, or doesnt have an option to create a pdf from multiple files. why is creating a pdf so hard to do? why do applications ALWAYS have to make pdf creation a "Premium" feature or "pro version / pro feature"? someone please explain... so my question is: is there a PDF Creator that is free, doesn't require a paid subscription or paid "license" to use, and has NO LIMIT on file number / file size? if so please reply and let me know.. thanks in advance.
Great?.... but how do I EXTRACT say, one page from a multipage pdf document in Preview. (I've tried this on a bank statement without success in Preview and instead had to resort to a 3rd party app to accomplish this).
“Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” (Asimov, I think. I’m too excited to fact check lol) This, to my research/writing life, is magic 👍😁
macmostvideo Great video... I have 76 Word documents in a folder on my mac, how do I find out how many pages there are without opening each one up!!.. I can find out how to do it on a PC but not on MAC
If you are building a PDF from multiple PDFs this way, there's no way to create a TOC or anything like that. You'd have to have build the document in something like Pages. Word, Indesign, etc. You may be able to do it with pro PDF software, like Adobe Acrobat, but I'm not sure.
macmostvideo Thank you for your response. I have no issues with regular numbering and bulleting. But when it comes to headings, it’s a whole different beast in Pages.
@@SmokedChips I you want to do an outline, use numbered bullets. Heading styles would be more for regular documents with lots of body text, and those would be used as the headings for parts of that. Have you tried the Note Taking template?
macmostvideo I haven’t tried the notetaking template. In a business environment, it is often required that you need documents with headings having an outline numbering. It is a must for any technical documentation. For example: A second heading-4 titled “Design characteristics”, under a third heading-3, under a fifth heading-2, under a second heading-1 should be automatically numbered as ... 2.5.3.2 Design Characteristics. I couldn’t figure out a way to make it work properly. Thanks again for your reply
@@JULIOAIS Not sure what you are asking here. Is it like two 100-page PDFs now? Or 200 1-page PDFs? What sort of situation is it and what is the source material? Hard for me to help without knowing more details.
@@macmost Is a book with 200 pages. I want to put it together in a folder containing the complete book: cover, pages, everything PDF, so I can e-mail it
It's strange what the macOS will allow to get added to a PDF. Other PDFs, sure. Some old .AI file - why not? Ancient .EPS, uhm alright. An all vector SVG? No.. absolutely not. :)
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Gary,
That is the best explanation of anything to do with a computer that I have ever seen ever. I felt like crying with relief. Thank so much. I appreciate your generosity and clarity.
Can’t thank you enough for this video! I watched this video about a week ago and today I created a 35 page PDF using this method. I had so many different scans and I was able to simply drag and drop into Preview! Made my life so much easier...Thank you, Gary!!! 👍🏽👍🏽
you prolly dont give a damn but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account??
I stupidly forgot the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me!
This is an excellent tutorial. You answered all the questions I had and more! (I never knew about the crop selection add facility). Clear and consise; this is what all tutorials should be like. Thank you!
All of us NON-techies very much appreciate what a great teacher you are! I refer to your stuff often (I usually need refresher courses - lol) Thank you!
Hi Gary,
your tutorials are great.
I learn so much from you. Short and clean with an excellent presentation.
The PDF-functions were completely new for me.
Greetings from Germany
Ciao Jack
That is so, so nice to know. Haven't had to do this for a while, but when you need to combine PDFs a simple solution like this is a golden. Thank you, Gary.
Gary, you are a very intelligent and helpful fellow and I don't know where I would be without your informative videos. Many thanks!!
I've had Mac for years and I love its basic apps, but I didn't know about this coolest feature! I'm so happy to know it's possible to do this with just Preview but I little sad that I didn't have this information earlier. Thank you so much!
One of the best videos I have ever seen explaining minute detail. Thanks.
Thanks Gary for explaining such a useful and necessary task we all need, but usually forget how to do! Especially great was your clear explanation of the complete process.
Thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for.
Once again Gary saving the day, this was so easy with your instructions, we got to love MacBook Pro M1 Max 32gb Ram 2tb Drive
The way ive gotten frustrated trying to do things all to find this guys tutorials and face palm because of how simple it turned out to be
This video was so incredibly helpful!! Thank you thank you, thank you!!
Your vidoes are great I always go to your site first when I have a queston. Thanks!
Such a huge relief!! Thank you so much for this!! I'm subscribing NOW - great style of presenting, too! Dude, you rock.
Thank for a very clear, concise and easy to follow tutorial. This really helped me out! Many thanks!
This was very useful video. I spent more than an hour in the internet trying to combine and couldn't do it. With this video I did it in 5 minutes.
This is exactly the information I was looking for. Such a huge help! Thank you. You're a great teacher! Clear and concise.
Must be the 12th time I've watched this vid. You save me every time, man. Excellent teaching style. Thank you! I remain subscribed! LOL
This instructional info is fantastic, and beautifully explained. It deserves many thousands more Likes! : D
Thank you again for another amazing tutorial. I had a problem in the past with dragging and dropping files and pdf's into the sidebar and saving the document afterward. Even if I saved the new pdf. document, the sidebar files wouldn't be included. To resolve this, I would print that pdf. as a pdf from the print menu. This was my workaround. I am sure it was operator error. I am doing it your way now, and it seems to work perfectly. I can't tell you how many hours I have invested in this program, using my workaround. This is much better.
You are a life saver!!! I was struggling doing this !! Thanks so much !!!!
Useful tips as always. Thank you very much.
Really useful information!! I didn’t know this was even possible, yet so easy.
Big thanks for this great tutorial.
Super helpful, thank you! Watching this in 2022
For some reason insert page opens the documents in a new preview window, any thoughts as to why? I used to be able to select multiple documents and open them all in one preview window but now this doesn't happen. Always appreciate how easy to understand your tutorials are, thank you!
That is absolutely great Gary! Thank you.
so simple yet so usefull , thanks for the video
Another great video this guy is fantastic so educational!! Thank You.
Thank you!! Helped a lot!
thank you Gary for your helpful videos and I enjoyed the office space reference ha
Thank you!!! SUPER helpful!
Wow i did not realize this. Thank you!!
Nice and simple, thanks a mil 👍🏻
Thank you. I have been wondering how to do this for a long time now. 👍
Thank you so much for your video. You got me out of trouble.
Omg I love you. Thank you for your help!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Can I do all of this and then send this by email? I’m so unteach savvy with cpu macs.
Great Video; so helpful.
This video is a huge help to me!!! Can't thank you enough for that... 👍👍👍
Thank you!! I've been using an online tool, and then I was like maybe my mac already has a method for this, and here it is. You saved me from headaches and potential viruses
Thank you for the helpful steps. I am working on my employer's ten-year-old MAC. We are able to add the thumbnails, but whether I use keystrokes to save or FILE-SAVE, the altered PDF always reverts to a single page and shows no sign of the combining steps. Do some MACs have restrictions; are there restrictions I would be able to bypass?
Brilliant tutorial!
Thank you! Very useful and straight to the point.
Another excellent video which I seem to have missed from almost 2 years ago! - perhaps you can create a video explaining how to "save" or export, each page in a PDF file to a stand alone PNG. Exporting from preview into PNG seems to create a multi page PDF document ? Seems that exporting to jpg on an individual basis works, but not png. So the question is, how can a pdf document be exported such that each page is either a standalone png or a standalone jpg? Affinity photo can read a pdf file and with some trickery, on a page by page basis it seems, can export a page to pdf or jpg? I will investigate if it is possible using that tool to export each page.
TPS report…love it!
Nice tips, thanks
Excellent! Thanks!
Now that's awesome!!! Thank you So much!
such a great video!!
Very useful tutorial 👍🏽👍🏽
Such good content 🙂
You’re out here doing the Lord’s work 😂 - thank you! It has been so long since I did this and I couldn’t remember. You taught me new things and reminded me of what I used to know. Appreciate it!
Sorry, I'm a little slow... If one of those documents has page numbering ON it does that change? (I'd like to keep it, it's the main part of the document). Much thanks, so good!
Do you mean page numbers from an app like Pages or Word? As a PDF, those are just more elements on the pages. Merging doesn't alter the contents of the pages so it wouldn't change. Try it and see.
thank you! you made it make sense to me
Thank you man this helped me out a lot ur a genius!!!
Thank You! So helpful..
Absolutely amazing. thank you thank you thank you
can you do all in E-book digital paperless ? I'll be interesting
If I understand correctly, I have no reason tp upgrade Acrobat anymore, if I can compile using Preview!
Thank you soooo much✨🤞
TQ, great video again :)
Great video
Do you have any posts that explain the easiest/best ways to create and edit Memes on Mac books?
I was thinking the same thing because he makes this look super easy. He’s the man.
you are a legend
Great.. so useful was not knowing before😇
Hey Gary, I love your stuff, and I'm a Mac user since OS8 and an iPhone user since 2009. I'd love to support your channel, but no way will I give a cent to Patreon. Can't you give us another option?
Thank you! You can always just buy a course at courses.macmost.com
you're a genius! thank you
Thanks!
thank you so much
You are genius
Thank you , What a blessing :)
I'm pretty stuck at the moment, I have over 200 .txt files to combine into 1 single pdf file, but every program I download either has a limit on the number of files you can convert into a pdf, or doesnt have an option to create a pdf from multiple files. why is creating a pdf so hard to do? why do applications ALWAYS have to make pdf creation a "Premium" feature or "pro version / pro feature"? someone please explain...
so my question is:
is there a PDF Creator that is free, doesn't require a paid subscription or paid "license" to use, and has NO LIMIT on file number / file size? if so please reply and let me know.. thanks in advance.
How do I do the opposite? Suddenly my MAC wants everything saved as a PDF when I want to print.
Great?.... but how do I EXTRACT say, one page from a multipage pdf document in Preview. (I've tried this on a bank statement without success in Preview and instead had to resort to a 3rd party app to accomplish this).
“Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” (Asimov, I think. I’m too excited to fact check lol) This, to my research/writing life, is magic 👍😁
I love that quote. Arthur C Clarke. Both Clarke and Asimov were such great writers.
macmostvideo I never got around to checking. Thank you for fixing it up. That was a great tutorial. 👍
This is was excellent. Thank You !
macmostvideo Great video... I have 76 Word documents in a folder on my mac, how do I find out how many pages there are without opening each one up!!.. I can find out how to do it on a PC but not on MAC
I can't think of a way. Microsoft must have something built-in to Windows to show that, since Word is theirs too.
Why can't I drag one file from one finder window to the other? Please help!
For some reason it won’t let me drag and drop to original thumbnail to combine?? Help!
how do you create a clickable table of contents when you finish compiling the pdf??
If you are building a PDF from multiple PDFs this way, there's no way to create a TOC or anything like that. You'd have to have build the document in something like Pages. Word, Indesign, etc. You may be able to do it with pro PDF software, like Adobe Acrobat, but I'm not sure.
Does this work on Big Sur? Have two pdf's open in preview and it won't drag and drop??
Yes, it works. Play around with it and you'll get the hand of it.
Can you create a video on how to do Outline Numbering (Heading-1 having 1. and Heading-2 having 1.1 etc) in Pages.
It is pretty straight-forward. I did one on lists a while back that may help you get started: th-cam.com/video/imYOo0Zad5I/w-d-xo.html
macmostvideo Thank you for your response. I have no issues with regular numbering and bulleting. But when it comes to headings, it’s a whole different beast in Pages.
@@SmokedChips I you want to do an outline, use numbered bullets. Heading styles would be more for regular documents with lots of body text, and those would be used as the headings for parts of that. Have you tried the Note Taking template?
macmostvideo I haven’t tried the notetaking template. In a business environment, it is often required that you need documents with headings having an outline numbering. It is a must for any technical documentation. For example: A second heading-4 titled “Design characteristics”, under a third heading-3, under a fifth heading-2, under a second heading-1 should be automatically numbered as ... 2.5.3.2 Design Characteristics. I couldn’t figure out a way to make it work properly. Thanks again for your reply
@@SmokedChips Not sure if there is a good way to get it working automatically. Maybe manually is the answer.
Can we convert PDG in Pages using preview??
Not sure what you mean. PDG?
@@macmost I am sorry for typo. I mean PDF
@@YogicConcepts No, but you can usually copy and paste text from the PDF into a new Pages document.
Great Video ;)
How do you do this on a iPad Pro 12.9
You'd need a PDF tool app to do this.
my screen looks different what version of os is he using
This video is from Jul 2020, so it would have been Catalina then.
Nice 👍
I literally needed this two days ago. Oh well, now I know.
It keeps saving a single page. I don't understand why is doing that
Awesome
Sometimes it doesn't add it and I want to know why...
I have a third party PDF app (not free) that's not as good as this. Gary can save you money!
How to combine pages of a book in one pdf file?
That's what this video is about.
@@macmost Even if is a 200 page book?
@@JULIOAIS Not sure what you are asking here. Is it like two 100-page PDFs now? Or 200 1-page PDFs? What sort of situation is it and what is the source material? Hard for me to help without knowing more details.
@@macmost Is a book with 200 pages. I want to put it together in a folder containing the complete book: cover, pages, everything PDF, so I can e-mail it
@@JULIOAIS Still not sure how to advise you on this. See my previous comment. What is it NOW?
It's strange what the macOS will allow to get added to a PDF. Other PDFs, sure. Some old .AI file - why not? Ancient .EPS, uhm alright. An all vector SVG? No.. absolutely not. :)
Drink every time he says "PDF."
POWERFUEL!
Too complicated. Too many files. Should’ve made it simpler