[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Execute the merge to a new document, and then use a macro containing the
following code to do the printing

Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To .Sections.Count
.PrintOut Range:=wdPrintFromTo, From:="s" & i, To:="s" & i
Next i
End With

That will send each letter to the printer as a separate print job and hence
the duplexing will work correctly.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"S N" wrote in message
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I have a 11 page letter which I want to send to about a 100 different
people. I am storing the addresses of all the 100 contacts in a word file
and am using mail merge to generate the 100 copies of the letter addresses
to each of the 100 contacts.
However, when I send the new mail merge document to print (duplex printing
on both side of page), it prints the first page of the second letter pn
the back side of the 11 page of the first letter. I dont want this to
happen.
Further if I add a blank page in my letter as the 12th page, the total
page count in the footer shows the count as 12 whereas there are only 11
pages available and hence is incorrect.
What I want is that the footer should show the total pages as 11, and
after the 11th page the printed document should keep te 12th page as blank
automatically. The first page of the next mail merger letter (to the
second recipient and so on), should start from a fresh page and not print
at the back side of the 11th printed page (when duplex printing has been
selected).

Kindly help.