Use Envelope Distort to combine 2 words.

How do I combine two words as one with Envelope Distort.... For example...
I want to take a paragraph worth of words and then apply envelope distort to it so it can all fit inside one word.
I use to use this technique all the time, but I must have forgotten a step cause I cant get it to work anymore.
I Expand both the paragraph and the single word..... then I make sure the single word is on top in the arrangement.... then I select the expanded paragraph.... while the paragraph is selected, I hold down shift so I can select the single word too.... Once both are selected I click on"Make with Top Object" under "Envelope Distort."
But it tells me "This requires a selection of multiple objects. The top object must be a single path or mesh, or a symbol containing a single path or mesh."
Whats the deal? I know this is possible because I have done this countless times, but I cant seem to do it anymore.
What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

I think you guys are right and he wants to do something like this
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<br />I no longer have the need to do this but used to doe this when I was in High School and then at Cooper Union it was very uncommon then but as it was costly to do even foe =r the design studios and agencies but since I worked for such and they paid me very little I had no problem using their resources at their expense. You can also do this with images and such.
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<br />Any way it is outlined text then all turned to area type paths and the thread and then filled with the text. Pretty simple and basic today.
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<br />I may have even been the first person to ever use this graphic device.
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<br />circa 1962.

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