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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Default merged new document has Section Breaks, not Continuous

To do that, you will need to be using a Catalog (or in Word XP and later, a
Directory) type mailmerge main document.

Alternatively, insert the other three tables into the mail merge main
document (copy and paste the first one) and before the first merge field in
the second, third and fourth table, insert a Next Record field

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Rick Stahl" wrote in message
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I have a table in Word that links to an Excel file via mail merge by the
use of inserted merge fields. The problem I have is that when I merge to a
new document, only 1 table is generated per page instead of 4 tables per
page (2 table per column with 2 columns per page). I noticed that a
"Section Break (Next Page) is generated in the new document but I do not
see it in the original template document. If I manually delete these
Section Breaks then I can obtain the 4 tables on one page. My template
document contains 1 table less than 1/4 of total page in upper left region
of page, is formatted for 2 columns, and is set to File Page Setup
Layout Section start Continuous. Can someone please help me so that I
end up with 4 tables per page ? Thank you !