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Hi wildchild
Both dwig's and Toxaris's suggestions are good ones - provides you with alternative ways of doing what you're trying to do.
The simplest way to combine the Word files would be to make a copy of the first file, rename the copy to indicate it's the whole book and not just the first section, then open that file and copy and paste the contents of each of the other files onto the end, in the correct order. Once you've done that, you can save the file, then save it as an RTF file.
However Toxaris' suggestion is worth revisiting - save each file as "Web Page, Filtered", then use Sigil to build them into an EPUB file. Yes, MS Word adds rather a lot of HTML and CSS code that isn't entirely necessary, but using the "Filtered" save setting cuts down on that, and unless you've done really weird stuff with your formatting in Word, it should convert OK. Might not be perfect from an HTML purist standpoint (and I'd include myself in that group most of the time), but unless your ebook requirements are complicated, it should work fine.
About Sigil - it will happily handle the job of taking multiple HTML files and compiling them into a single EPUB. When you start a new file in Sigil, you simply insert all of your HTML files, and Sigil does the job of creating the EPUB file. If you have used Word's heading styles for your section and chapter titles, you can use Sigil's TOC (table of contents) editor/wizard to create a single TOC for the whole EPUB, based on those headings.
I'd recommend having a browse around the Sigil forum here in MobileRead, where you'll find the link to download and install Sigil, along with lots of info about how to use it.
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