[S N]

The solution is not working.
Probably the problem is that the original single document also contains many
sections. Hence the macro is splitting the document itself into many
separate print documents, sometimes even when there is no section breaks
between them.
Please help with alternative solution.



"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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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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"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.