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I wish I knew about this a LONG time ago. If you've ever moved text from the newer text engine in Illustrator CS to an older version, or you've opened up a generic PDF file, you may have encountered this small but extremely tedious annoyance; all your text is broken up in in individual text blocks! How infuriating! Mordy Golding of Real World Illustrator shares with us two ways to go about working out this problem. The first is the more basic of the two:

Select all of the individual text objects, choose Edit > Copy, and then simply paste into an existing text object -- all the text will be magically "sewn together" into a single string.

Easy! Now for those who want to delve a little deeper, you can install a custom script to automatically fix these text fields:

Justin Putney and Amy Petersen of Ajar Productions, have developed a script, which when run, throws up a dialog box asking how you'd like to join the text (other scripts usually rely on stacking order or the order in which the text was created). In addition, the script is installed using Adobe's Extension Manager, which is actually a nice little AIR application that Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks have utilized in the past, but it's refreshing to see it being used now with Illustrator as well (CS4 required for that version of the script). More detailed information as well as the script itself can be had here. Once the script is installed, launch Illustrator, select your chopped-up text and choose File > Scripts > MergeText_AI. Season to taste, and enjoy!

Thanks Mordy!

source: Real World Illustrator