How To Create a Single PDF From Multiple Documents On a Mac 

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!!! 👍🏽👍🏽

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!

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!

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, 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.

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.

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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

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.

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Gary, you are a very intelligent and helpful fellow and I don't know where I would be without your informative videos. Many thanks!!

Useful tips as always. Thank you very much.

That is absolutely great Gary! Thank you.

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.

Super helpful! Really clearly described! thank you so much!

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Thank you!! Helped a lot!

You are the man. Being new to mac. I miss the scan document feature I was used to in that other OS. But this tutorial answered all my questions, plus the fact that I have a cheaper Epson AIO and do not have an APP as my old HP did. Again, thanks for this video.

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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

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Thanks!

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?

Awesome

Nice 👍

Can I do all of this and then send this by email? I’m so unteach savvy with cpu macs.

You are genius

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.

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!

Do you have any posts that explain the easiest/best ways to create and edit Memes on Mac books?

If I understand correctly, I have no reason tp upgrade Acrobat anymore, if I can compile using Preview!

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.

can you do all in E-book digital paperless ? I'll be interesting

“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 👍😁

This is was excellent. Thank You !

This is a great tip! Thanks!

I literally needed this two days ago. Oh well, now I know.

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!

Does this work on Big Sur? Have two pdf's open in preview and it won't drag and drop??

How do I do the opposite? Suddenly my MAC wants everything saved as a PDF when I want to print.

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?

how do you create a clickable table of contents when you finish compiling the pdf??

Why can't I drag one file from one finder window to the other? Please help!

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).

For some reason it won’t let me drag and drop to original thumbnail to combine?? Help!

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

How do you do this on a iPad Pro 12.9

my screen looks different what version of os is he using

Can we convert PDG in Pages using preview??

Can you create a video on how to do Outline Numbering (Heading-1 having 1. and Heading-2 having 1.1 etc) in Pages.