COMBINE FILES: save job?

Hi everyone!
I'm combining over 100 MS-office documents into one PDF using the COMBINE FILES function in Acrobat 8 standard.
But every time one of the documents is updated it looks like I have to go through the whole process all over again.... drop the files, sort them, edit selected file contents.
Is there any way to save the job so that the next time I want to combine the same files, I do not need to do it all from scratch?
1,000 thanks

If it's only a few documents you can use Document>Replace pages to insert the revised one over the old one.

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