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Combining two PDF files into a single document

I have a PDF document and a Word document. I need to combine both these documents into a single PDF document, with the first document appearing first followed by the second document. Unfortunately, I do not have the Word version of the first document or else I could do it all in Word and then create the single PDF from it.

How could I go about accomplishing this? Would I need to use Adobe Professional? Could I line up both the documents one under the other and scan them together as a single PDF file? If I did it this way, would the hyperlinks in the PDF still work?
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I tried it, but it is giving me the response - cannot merge PDFs. Attached are the PDFs that I wish to merge. Can you see if it works  on your end?
xBost-Cons-App-Spain.pdf
xBoston-SAI-APP-INSTRUC-Spain-.pdf
PDFtk worked perfectly. Combined file is attached. Regards, Joe
combined.pdf
Here they are, joined.

//beat me by a whole min and 20 sec, Joe :)
joined.pdf
geeta_m9,
Btw, after copying your files into my PDFtk folder, here's the command I used:

pdftk xBost-Cons-App-Spain.pdf xBoston-SAI-APP-INSTRUC-Spain-.pdf cat output combined.pdf

Dan,
You're slowin' down! :)  Cheers, Joe
Yeah, I must be getting old.

On a side note, I stopped giving users command prompt solutions, cause 90% of the time the feedback I get is "It's not working".
I noticed the best received for one-off jobs are online services, where the user uploads the files and downloads the result.

Which, btw, is exactly what the OP did :)
Hmmm, I wonder why it didn't work for me. Fortunately, I found this other site that worked for me.http://foxyutils.com/mergepdf/
Glad to hear you found something that worked for you. Thanks for posting your result! Regards, Joe