Doug, sure, I'll send it, but did you mean to remove the REMOVECAPS from the
address I get when I click on your name?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Hi Vicki,

Can you send me the mailmerge main document so that I can have a look at it.
As Peter said, that is not the way it usually works so there must be
something peculiar about the document. Please remove the REMOVETHIS from my
email address.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Vicki" wrote in message
...
I fixed it! There must be a more straight-forward method to do this common
task, but I had to Select All in the merged document to select all 38
pages,
then click FormatReveal Formatting, then click Layout under Section, then
select Continuous. It was (and still is, I can't seem to change the
default)
set to Begin Section on New Page. There's got to be an easier way, but
this
ridiculously involved method worked so I'm done. Thank you again for
setting
me on the right road!

"Vicki" wrote:

Peter, thank you for all your help. I will work on it some more and see
if I
can fix the paragraph formatting. It's using the Normal formatting but
maybe
I can make a new one and make sure it has no page breaks. I followed
your
directions again and the Page Break Before was unchecked to begin with,
but
Widows and Orphans was checked, so I unchecked that. I'll keep trying
and
thank you again for all the detailed help. I think they made Word way
more
difficult than it needs to be!

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, it sounds as if it is associated with the paragraph r the paragraph
style.

Suppose you have the following paragraphs in your mail merge main
document

A
B
C
D

and that in the output you end up with

A1
B1
new page
C1
D1
A2
B2
new page
C2
D2
etc.

then you should
a. click in paragraph C in your mail merge main document, then click
Format|Stles and Formatting. The "Styles and Formatting" task pane
should
pop up.
b. Select the highlighted style name in the task pane, right-click and
select "Modify"
c. Click the Format button in the lower left hand corner of the dialog
box
that appears, then Paragraph
d. Click "Line and Page Breaks", then Uncheck "Page Break Before",
then
press OKuntil finished.

That should deal with the case where the paragaph /style/ has page
break
associated with it. If it is the indvidual paragraph, you'll need to
figure
that out for yourself or ask again as I have to finish now...

Peter Jamieson
"Vicki" wrote in message
...
Okay, so I found the problem with the formatting, but I don't know
how to
fix
it. When I do the merge as you suggested I still get multiple pages.
When I
reveal the formatting with the paragraph symbol button there is a
section
break (next page) format after the first record. It's not there when
I
start
the new document in the beginning. I have clicked FormatClear
formatting
but that didn't change anything. How do I clear that formatting out
of
there
before I merge?

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Can you figure out where I went astray?

It's not obvious. It's certainly not how directory merges usually
work,
so
something unusual must be going on.

What happens if you start with a completely blank document and
a. connect to the data source
b. insert /one/ mailmerge field, with no additional lines after it
c. ensure that the paragraph does not have "page break before"
specified
d. ensure that the page layout is (say) single page, not
double-page
layout
etc.
e. do the merge?

I would expect to see the data for the selected field appear one
record
after another without even a paragraph break, e.g. if the value in
record
1
was A, in record 2 was B, and so on, I would actually expect to see
ABC...

If I put one more paragraph mark after the field, I would expect to
see
A
B
C

Peter Jamieson

"Vicki" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I've done everything you said (I'm using Word 2002 but
the
menu
choice is Directory, not Catalog). Can you figure out where I
went
astray?
1) open new doc 2)Insert 1 row table with 2 columns and open data
source
3)
insert mail merge field Last Name in first cell and Address in
second
cell
4)
Click Merge to New Document. I got 39 pages with one address on
each.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Are you sure that you are using a Directory type mailmerge main
document.
I
assume that because of your use of the terminology "*.mdb
recipients
list"
that you are using Word XP or Word 2003. If you are using an
earlier
version of Word, it is called a Catalog type mail merge.

In either case, if you insert a one row table into the main
document
and
into the cells of that table, you insert the mergefields, then
when
you
execute the merge to a new document, that new document will
contain a
row
of
data for each record in the data source.

There should be nothing else in the main document apart from that
one
row
table.

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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

"Vicki" wrote in message
...
I think I didn't put enough in my main document (I had only Last
Name
and
Address on one line). What do I put there if I want is a list
of
Last
Name
and Address for each record? How do I get it to put
consecutive
records
on
the same page? Thank you for helping.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Ok, it shouldn't, unless you have done something like..
a. inserted a page break in your mail merge main document
b. inserted a paragraph that has "page break before"
formatting,
or
used
a
paragraph style with that formatting attached (I would suspect
the
latter,
if you have used a Heading style to introduce each entry in
your
directory).

Peter Jamieson
"Vicki" wrote in message
...
I chose the Directory option. That is what put each record
on a
separate
page.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

In the first step of the Mail Merge Wizard, or using the
first
button
on
the
Mail Merge toolbar, choose the "Directory" option.

Peter Jamieson

"Vicki" wrote in message
...
I have printed envelopes using a mail merge in Word. How
do I
print
a
one-page list of the recipients' names and addresses
using the
same
*.mdb
list? When I try to make a directory from the
recipients'
list
each
record
is on a separate page. I want all records to be on one
page.
In
other
words, I want a single-page list of the people I sent
invitations
to.
Any
help?