OK, right now I realize I'm confusing compilation with merging.
Is Enrich or Include part of the merging process? In other words, if I have glossary A with enriches, and glossary B without enriches, if I merge the two to make glossary C, will that include the enriches or Includes from glossary A?
Here's part of my problem with compilation and merging: As I've mentioned before, I don't have reports sitting in Word to use. All my reports are sitting in Meditech, and I have to copy them about one screen at a time onto a dummy Wordpad document, a painstakingly long process. When I get 3-4 reports copied into a dummy report, I use the single compilation feature and compile. I wish it would then add the new info to an existing glossary, but it seems to create a whole new glossary. After a few times of doing this, I have several new glossaries that I just want to make into one. I wish the compilation feature would take all the info and add it to an existing glossary instead of creating a brand new one. I certainly don't want 5 or 6 surgery glossaries piling up when I only need one. So then I merge. It is at this point, after merging, that when I try to open the new glossary, it gives me an error message like "Can't find surgery1.gl" and when I view the new glossary, sure enough with the Include list are names of several glossaries with just "gl" instead of "glo." I delete these, then add them on again with glo. Then everything's OK. Somehow in this process, the suffix .glo gets turned to just .gl on a few, not all, of the included glossaries.
Sorry about the mixup - still trying to get comfortable with the new vocabulary.