What to Do When Merging or Splitting Fails
Key points
- Check the file type
- Check the size
- Review the settings
If Merge and Split Text Files is not working, check the following.
Steps
- Check the files are text
- Check none is over 50 MB
- Review the lines or size setting
Convert Word or PDF files to text first.
Use "Merge and Split Text Files" (free)
Tools that go well with this
- Remove and Tidy Line Breaks in Text: Tidy line breaks in text copied from PDFs and elsewhere.
- Convert Text Encoding (Fix Garbled Text): Convert text files between Shift_JIS, UTF-8, EUC-JP and more to fix garbled text.
- Merge, Split and Pick Columns from CSV: Merge CSV files, split by rows, or keep only chosen columns.