Quick way to concatenate 100+ text files and IN ORDER?

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How do I take a folder of 100+ text files and quickly concatenate them in order?

I know that if you put them in the same folder and type copy/b *.txt newfile.txt into the command prompt, it concatenates them into a new file, but the order seems to be random.

On the other hand, if you type copy/b file1.txt +file2.txt +file3.txt file4.txt into the command prompt, this will concatenate your files in the order you want, except typing out the names of 100+ files would take ages.

So what you could do then is highlight all your files and rename the top one, calling it, for example "file.txt". This will then rename the whole bunch as "file (1).txt", "file (2).txt" etc. Then you could create the text for your sum (e.g., file (1).txt + file (2).txt + ... etc) in Excel or something.

But ... but ... the command prompt does not recognise filenames with spaces in. So it then seems you would have to use the equivalent spaceless path for each file. (How??)

There has to be an easier way than all this, doesn't there? Does anyone know?

(Actually, I would quite like to be able to concatenate rtf files without having to convert them to text files beforehand. Does anyone know how to do this?

This should do it: