Combining Pages Files into a single document

I have looked for an answer to this but have not found a suitable solution. It's a pretty straightforward question. I have about 10 articles written in Pages and I need to basically compile them into a kind of book format (single document, continuous page numbers etc.). I know how to do this in MS Word, but can't work out how to do this in Pages. It is essential that I put this together in Pages because some articles have special formatting with end notes, images, sections etc. that can't be lost or messed up.
Thank you for your help!

Try *Swift Publisher* by Belight Software:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18896/swift-publisher
This behaves exactly as you would expect.
You can grab pages in the thumbnails and freely shuffle them. You can also drag the thumbnail pages between documents. Using cmd-shift you can even do this with out-of-sequence pages.
There are plenty of other features as well that Pages lacks and it has a much better written and direct interface without the confusing convolutions of Pages.
As a bonus you get crop marks and the ability to impose exported files.
The templates are not up to Pages' standards but there is nothing stopping you recreating exactly what you have in Pages.
Peter

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Welcome to the forum.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I really did try to find the answer both in the Pages documentation and the forums and couldn't find even a similar question!
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