[macropod[_2_]]

Hi SN,

For a single-Section letter, that's easy. But you've described your mailmerge as using multi-Section letters. Is there any way you
can reduce the # Sections per letter to 1? If not, the field coding becomes somewhat complex - especially since one has to avoid IF
fields if the fields are to survive a mailmerge.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"S N" wrote in message ...
The procedure is giving me a document with 12th page generated automatically. This is fine.
But the total number of pages shown in the footer is also showing as 12 in the manner Page 1 of 12, Page 12 of 12 etc.
What I want is that the 12th page should be generated but the count of total number of pages shown in footer etc should remain at
11. The footer should show as Page 2 of 11, Page 11 of 11 etc and not PAge 11 of 12, PAge 2 of 12, Page 12 of 12.
Ideally the solution should be generic, i.e it should be independent of the number of pages in original document before merge. The
solution should work for situation even of the number of pages initially in document before merge are 5 or 7 or 11 or 50 whatever.


"macropod" wrote in message ...
Hi SN,

DO NOT change 'QUOTE 12' to 'QUOTE 1'! The 'QUOTE 12' tells Word to insert a page break.

As for your page numbering, issue, try doing a print preview before printing. If that doesn't work, post back and I'll give you a
field code to suppress the page number on the last page.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"S N" wrote in message ...
I tried the code again and ran the mail merge.
The code automatically generated the 12th blank page after every 11th page.
However, the footer on the 12th page appeared as
Page 12 of 11

This is absurd.

Please help.



"macropod" wrote in message ...
Hi SN,

So how many Sections per letter are there? With that information, you could modify the macro print groups of Sections.

An alternative approach is to place the following field code at the very end of the last Section in your mailmerge main
document:
{=MOD({PAGE},2) \# "{QUOTE 12};;"}
What this will do is to insert a page break if the page on which it occurs is an odd-numbered page.

Note: The field brace pairs (ie '{ }') for the above example are created via Ctrl-F9 - you can't simply type them or copy &
paste them from this message.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"S N" wrote in message ...
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 ...
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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Hope this helps.

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

"S N" wrote in message ...
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.