What is the easiest way for a computer dummy like me to merge lots of word document into one document?

Start a new document, then copy and paste in the order you want into the new document

Make sure you made copies of all the documents, in case you do the commands wrong and it doesn't combine them correctly.

First have all the files in the same folder that's easy to find on your computer, like in your documents.

Go to command prompt, then type the following:

cd c:\(location of the word documents, eg, c:\users\admin\documents)

Hit enter, then type:

copy /b {name of file}.doc + {name of file 2}.doc + {name of file 3}.doc new.doc

Hit enter

You should be done. If you want to add more than this, you can, just remember not to put a "+" sign at the end of all the documents. Note that if your using Microsoft office 2007 include an "x" after doc, so it looks like this

{name of file}.docx

Also, do not include the {} part of the file, for example, if one of the word documents was called Yahoo, then you would type in place of the "name of file", so it would look like this.

copy /b Yahoo.doc + etc.....