Combine pages - Why is it now changing the documents I'm trying to combine?!!

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September 3, 2025
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I use the combine as PDF option often. I went to try and combine 2 different PDF pages today and it continues to merge the information from one file to another. I just want to take 2 files/pages and make them one file.

There is a pop up message that comes up telling me that it is going to merge my information and if I don't want that than I need to use the portfolio option except when trying it that way, they remain 2 separate files, there is not combining. I don't want to open a "portfolio" with multiple files, I want to open one file that has all my pages in one file where I can scroll through like I used to. This is the most frustrating thing!

try67

Community Expert

[Question moved to the Acrobat forum, since Reader can't merge files]

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

In Acrobat flatten the pages before you combine the files.

try67

Community Expert

To provide a bit of context: This happens because you're combining files that contain form fields with the same names, so they are "merged" to a single field when you combine them, and only one value is kept, as fields with the same name are duplicates of each one in a PDF file. So your options are either to use a Portfolio, flatten the form fields before combining the files (so that they are static contents, instead of fields), or rename them so that they each have a unique name before combining the files.

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