Sounds like you could do all the assembly work in Word and save it as a single 10+ page PDF file directly from Word, without having to touch Acrobat.
I could... but it is faster and easier to save the single Word document as a PDF, and then let Acrobat do all the combining.
Combining files in Word is a pain, especially having to deal with different file types and sometimes having to rearrange the order of the pages, and the scaling doesn't always work out right... With Acrobat, I just drag the individual files into the "Combine" box in the order that I want them, and it's done. I'm actually finding that the operation goes faster now than it did before, because even when Acrobat
would read and combine the older version Word files, it was slow -- taking about 30 seconds for a single Word document. Now that it is combining mostly .png and .pdf files, it is almost instantaneous. It takes only a second or two extra to save the original Word file as a .pdf, so overall it is faster.
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