Just wondering -- if you have a bunch of polygons you wish to combine all together into a single polygon -- is it possible to do other than my current way of delete faces/create polygon tool on remaining vertices/combine with original mesh/merge the vertices?

Edit: Ubersecret reason -- saves me from having to delete history 2x during the modelling of a simple 20-poly model (which during its lifespan at one point was like -- 4000, or more, back down, back up, back down, etc.)