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Subject:Re: Word mail merge too short? From:P Newman <pnewman1 -at- HOME -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:35:25 -0400
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HTH
Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geoff Hart <Geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca>
> To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 8:20 AM
> Subject: Word mail merge too short?
>
>
> > Matthew Nankin reports that <<...Word is limited by the fact
> > it only allows one mail merge page (and only one page!) per
> > document... the real solution seems to be to expand the mail
> > merge document beyond what would fit on one sheet of
> > paper. Has anyone been able to figure this out?>>
> >
> > I haven't tried this, but I suspect the solution is to create the
> > main document with all the fields you need, create as many 1-
> > page mail-merge documents as you need to cover all those
> > fields, then do the mail merge once for each of those
> > documents (reassigning the control document for the merge
> > before doing each new merge). I did much the same thing
> > with a large macro that Word wouldn't let me store as a single
> > procedure: I broke it up into 3 separate, smaller procedures,
> > then run each one in series. Slower, but works just fine.
