Join multiple pieces of text

Does anyone know of a script that will take little pieces of text in CS4 & CS5, and join them into one piece so that the text is easier to edit? I've tried joining the text by selecting it, cutting it , and putting it into a text area, but the type often gets scrambled doing it this way.

There are a couple of scripts already about that do this… Is your broken up text from PDF where the kerning shatters it? This link has 2 examples:
http://ajarproductions.com/blog/adobe-extensions/

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By selecting some of these XML documents, the system should be able to create a new Word document with all the selected text paragraphs included.
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You use Assembler for this purpose.
1) Assembler can be accessed through LC Java API. See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/enterpriseplatform/10.0/programLC/help/index.html
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
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Joining multiple albums

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For years now I have wished I could select multiple strings of text but have never figured out how to do it. Multiple image placement is allowed now but, as far as I can see, not this. Am I missing something simple. I often want to select all the text on a page for conversion to, say italics, and am fed up having to do it one my one. Any advice appreciated. Hopefully I've just been dumb! Thanks.

[ I hope this post comes off with the proper verve. ]
User interfaces are hard. And they are evolving.
If every app out there had non-contiguous selection support, it would be really weird for Adobe InDesign not to have it.
More and more apps are getting non-contiguous selection support. And for some people, Microsoft Word is every application. They write their email in it, they post the this forum in its web browser, they read and write papers, RFPs, proposals, memos, and storytales for their children in it. To such people, if Word does something, anything else that doesn't do it is strange.
Indeed, they may not be far from wrong, Word has a huge market share and huge market penetration. So I suspect it's just a question of time before the OS's standard GUI selection interface permits non-contiguous selection, and then Adobe will have to update theirs and if they're late to the party, it will well be recognized.
This has nothing to do with whether the feature is actually useful. It might even be anti-useful, as some have suggested.
But discoverability is also very important. You can have 100 useful features and 1 feature that is not-quite-as-good but is very discoverable: the feature that's very discoverable is better because people will find it and use it.
That's what we have with the eyedropper. Nobody knows about it, nobody thinks about it, and very few applications have eyedroppers that work on text. (Also, ID's eyedropper is problematic because its behavior is quite modal but you can't see the modes; it's easy enough to set it for something a few months ago and then wonder why it no longer works for the thing you wanted it to).
My good colleague Jongware knocks on rectangular selection
Whoops TextEdit!! It even supports rectangular selection.
and Joel joins him. Rectangular selection is awesome. It really became popular with the release of Emacs 19 in 1994, which introduced C-x r as the prefix for rectangular commands, and had these:
** Some C-x key bindings have been moved onto new prefix keys.
C-x r is a prefix for registers and rectangles.
C-x n is a prefix for narrowing.
C-x a is a prefix for abbrev commands.
C-x r C-SPC
C-x r SPC     point-to-register    (Was C-x /)
C-x r j          jump-to-register     (Was C-x j)
C-x r s          copy-to-register     (Was C-x x)
C-x r i          insert-register      (Was C-x g)
C-x r r          copy-rectangle-to-register (Was C-x r)
C-x r k          kill-rectangle
C-x r y          yank-rectangle
C-x r o          open-rectangle
C-x r f          frame-configuration-to-register
(This saves the state of all windows in all frames.)
C-x r w          window-configuration-to-register
(This saves the state of all windows in the selected frame.)
This was critical. Before when you had an operation where you wanted to cut some columns off of some text, for instance, you used to have to mess around with cut(1), or if you had a system that didn't have cut, then you had to use awk(1)'s substr() function. Suppose you had an ls(1) listing like this and you noly wanted the sizes and the filenames but not the dates:
$ ls -l
total 648
drwxr-xr-x   4 writer staff     136 May 23 17:57 Applications
drwxr-xr-x+ 19 writer staff     646 May 23 18:05 Desktop
drwx------+ 16 writer staff     544 May 7 18:47 Documents
drwx------+ 7 writer staff     238 May 16 18:08 Downloads
drwx------+ 44 writer staff    1496 Mar 10 18:23 Library
drwx------+ 3 writer staff     102 Sep 14 2010 Movies
drwx------+ 5 writer staff     170 Mar 10 17:40 Music
-rw-r--r--   1 writer staff       0 May 23 18:26 My Test
drwx------+ 4 writer staff     136 Sep 14 2010 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 writer staff     170 Sep 14 2010 Public
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 writer staff     170 Sep 14 2010 Sites
$
(Yes, I know, in this case you can just use awk to pull out columns 7 and 8-end; but the syntax for the latter is annoying, as is dealing with fields containing spaces.)
If you used cut, you'd have to figure out the column positions, which is annoying. Most people just guess the numbers and see if it works, and then adjust it, though of course you could measure it.
$ ls -l | cut -c 30-37,51-
    136 Applications
    646 Desktop
    544 Documents
    238 Downloads
   1496 Library
    102 Movies
    170 Music
      0 My Test
    136 Pictures
    170 Public
    170 Sites
329521 log
$
and if you didn't have cut, you'd do it with awk: awk '{print substr($0,30,8) substr($0,51)}'
Suddenly, with emacs 19, this common task was easy. You could just select the rectangles you didn't want and delete them. It was wonderful!
Now, maybe you don't work with tabular ASCII text that's line up in columns and have to do stuff like extract columns. But I do on a somewhat regular basis. And rectangular selection, be it in Emacs or TextEdit, is really handy. It makes it quick to lop something off the beginning of the line. There are a dozen ways I could do it, including awk, perl, sed, cut, Excel, regular expressions, etc. But by far using rectnagular selections is the easiest and cleanest.
(I'm willing to believe most InDesign power users have no need for rectangular selection. I've used it when dealing with tabular data in preparation for formatting tables in InDesign. Or with stuff like adding $'s to a column where someone didn't bother to do it before they exported the data from Excel.)
In an app that has less-than-robust style management, it makes sense, I guess.
Really nothing to do with styles. Oh, and we hardly even touched on the fact that not only can you select in rectangles, but you can cut and paste them. Rearranging puzzle blocks on your Cartesian grid of the universe.
Pure and utter bliss.

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test2:'
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