Doug, my report prints 15 records to a page. There are usually over 200
records in the file.
I want the numbering to be continuous through the whole of the document
created by the mailmerge execution. You indicate that I need to use "a
catalog (or in Word XP and later, it is called directory) type mailmerge main
document." Can you be more specific. I do not understand what you mean?

MichaelB

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

When you execute the merge to a new document, how many pages are there in
that document for each record in the data source. If there is only one,
then each page will be numbered 1 by design as with a formletter type
mailmerge, it is natural for the numbering of each letter created by the
merge to be independent of the other letters. If you want the numbering to
be continuous through the whole of the document created by the mailmerge
execution, then you need to use a catalog (or in Word XP and later, it is
called directory) type mailmerge main document. If you want the information
for each record to start on a new page, then you need to format the first
paragraph in the main document so that it has a page break before it.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Created a MS Word Merge report using an MS Word and MS Excel document. The
MS
Word field data fields came off of the MS Excel data file. To fill the
data
on one MS Word report page it took 1.5 pages of MS Word (because of line
wraparound due to length of field names).

I tried many techniques of printing page numbers on the MS Word report but
all it prints is page # 1 when there is more than 1 page to be printed. I
tried { PAGE }, then tried right mouse button update field for { PAGE },
then tried header/footer, then other techniques but nothing worked.

Your assistance in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

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