RTF merge and make DOCx/Pages.

Is there a way to merge RTF files (I have around 40) and create it as a single docx or Pages file?

MacBook Pro (M4 Pro, 2024)

Posted on Dec 20, 2025 9:59 PM

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Dec 21, 2025 5:28 AM in response to agbenny

No.


Niel's approach is doable, though with testing, only plain text results from a copy/paste into Pages from Quick Look.

If you have a great deal of RTF formatted text, then you would need to open each individual RTF document in Apple's TextEdit and then copy/paste the formatted content, appending it to the open (and saved) Pages document.


Yes.


If your RTF documents are named numerically ascending (e.g. doc01.rtf, doc02.rtf, ... docnn.rtf) then one could automate appending them in that order directly to a Word .doc or .docx document. This is done in the folder containing these files from the Terminal command:

textutil -cat docx -output combined.docx *.rtf


or

textutil -cat docx -font Times -fontsize 12 -output combined.docx *.rtf


This will use the natural UNIX collating sequence to append the RTF files in their file naming order. The bad news, the Word document is still plain text.


Tested: macOS Tahoe 26.2, Pages v14.4

Dec 22, 2025 1:20 PM in response to agbenny

Yes.


Automator can do this:



The files are appended in the order you select them in the first step.


Due to limitations in the Ask for Finder Items action, all files will need to be in the same directory (although you could combine files 1 through 10 from directory 1 into one file, then use that as the first input file in a second run that adds files 11 through 20 from a second directory).


At the end of the run you'll have a single .rtf file will all the previous files' contents. Simple to open in Pages and tweak to account for any formatting glitches.

RTF merge and make DOCx/Pages.

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