[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Formatting details such as page orientation, headers and footers are stored
in Section Breaks or the final paragraph mark of a document. Possibly if
you put a Continuous Section Break at the end of your letter template, those
details will be retained.

If you showed the code of the macro, it might be possible to offer other
advice.

From your description of the operation, I am guessing that this sysem is
probably mostly used for creating mutliple letters with differing content
from just the one record. If that is the case, mail merge may not be the
best way of doing it.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Julia" wrote in message
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Hi-
I am using Word 2007 to generate letters from a 3rd party program via the
merge feature.

There is a library of letters the user can choose from in the other
software. Multiple letters can be selected, and put in a queue. The user
also
chooses record(s) to run the merge on.

On the Word side, I open a "standard" template which contains fieldcodes
for
all of the data fields and run a macro which does the following:
1. Loads the record data fields into memory
2. Nests the letter template(s) into the "standard" template based on a
field code which references which letter(s) should be used.
3. Populates the fields in the letter(s) based on the data loaded in step
1.

Generally, this works fine. However, I now need to generate a letter that
contains a first page in portrait mode, second page landscape; plus a
watermark that does not print on the first page but prints on subsequent
pages. I have created a letter template with these features, and if I do a
manual merge, it runs fine and looks great. However, if I do the merge the
automated way through the macro, I lose the special formatting in my
letter-
I suspect because the formatting in my "standard" template is overwriting
it.

I know this is really complicated. :-( Anyone have any ideas how to
preserve
the formatting in a nested document in a merge?

TIA-
Julia