If you execute the merge to a new document, then you could use the following
macro to split it into individual documents based on the template that you
want to use by specifying the template in the line Set Target =
Documents.Add(Template Name)

Sub splitter()
' splitter Macro
' Macro created by Doug Robbins to save each letter created by a mailmerge
' as a separate file, retaining the header and footer information.
Dim i As Long, Source As Document, Target As Document, Letter As Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To Source.Sections.Count
Set Letter = Source.Sections(i).Range
Set Target = Documents.Add
Target.Range = Letter
Target.Sections(2).PageSetup.SectionStart = wdSectionContinuous
Target.SaveAs FileName:="Letter" & i
Target.Close
Next i
End Sub


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Colin Halliday" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply, but it is the mailmerge document, not the form
letter that I want to specify a template for; i.e. the document that is
created when you complete the merge to a new document.

Colin


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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There is nothing to stop you creating a document from any template of
your choosing and then using that document as a mailmerge main document.
Rather than use the Mail Merge Wizard however, you should display the
Mail Merge toolbar, via ViewToolbars and then use the left-hand button
on the toolbar to change the document to a formletter type document.

It may however be one of the mailmerge events that you will need to use,
rather than a before print event, particularly if you want the event to
function during the execution of the merge to the printer.

Otherwise, you could just have the code that you wish to use in an add-in
that you could invoke whenever it is required.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Colin Halliday" wrote in message
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Is it possible to specify a template to use for the mailmerge document
rather than use the normal template?

If, for example, I wish to use the beforeprint vba event to do some
processing before printing of the merged document, I could build this
into a template and specify that this particular template be used when I
generate the merged document from the form letter document.

Thanks.

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Colin Halliday