[Peter Jamieson]

What about
a. you start with a laebl type mail merge main document. Suppose it is a
four card layout.
b. you duplicate the page and the table in it. You may also need to asdjust
the position and layout of the table on page 2
c. you have { NEXT } fields in cells 2 3 and 4 on page 1 but none on page 2
d. suppose you want fields A and B on the front and fields B and C on the
back

In cell one on page one you have

{ SET B1 { MERGEFIELD B
}{ SET C1 { MERGEFIELD C
}{ MERGEFIELD A }
{ MERGEFIELD B }

in cell two you have

{ NEXT }{ SET B2 { MERGEFIELD B
}{ SET C2 { MERGEFIELD C
}{ MERGEFIELD A }
{ MERGEFIELD B }

and so on for cells 3 and 4.

On page two in cell one, you have

{ REF B2 }
{ REF C2 }

in cell two , you have

{ REF B1 }
{ REF C1 }

and so on (which way round exactly depends on the way the duplexing works).

A really simple example seems to work - you can merge to a new document to
see. But
a. am I missing something?
b. ISTR that you can't SET and REF stuff such as ADDRESSBLOCK fields.

Peter Jamieson
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
This cannot be done with mailmerge alone. What you need to do is execute
two merges, one for the front side and one for the back, each one to a new
document, then use a macro to combine those documents into a single
document taking alternate pages for each and then print that combined
document to your duplex printer.

I have previously set this sort of thing up for a person who was merging
two postcards to a sheet for which the following macro was used to combine
the documents. It will probably need modification for your four cards per
sheet:

Sub CombineDocs()

Dim sourcea As Document, sourceb As Document, target As Document

Dim i As Long, j As Long

Dim arange As Range

Set target = Documents.Open(FileName:="c:\target.doc")

Set sourcea = Documents.Open(FileName:="c:\sourcea.doc")

Set sourceb = Documents.Open(FileName:="c:\sourceb.doc")

j = 2 * sourcea.Tables(1).Rows.Count - 1

For i = 1 To j

target.Tables(1).Rows.Add

Next i

With sourcea.Tables(1)

For i = 1 To .Rows.Count

Set arange = .Rows(i).Cells(1).Range

arange.End = arange.End - 1

If i Mod 2 = 1 Then

j = 1

Else

j = 2

End If

target.Tables(1).Cell(2 * i - j, 1).Range.FormattedText =
arange

Next i

End With

With sourceb.Tables(1)

For i = 1 To .Rows.Count

Set arange = .Rows(i).Cells(1).Range

arange.End = arange.End - 1

If i Mod 2 = 1 Then

j = 1

Else

j = 0

End If

target.Tables(1).Cell(2 * i + j, 1).Range.FormattedText =
arange

Next i

End With

sourcea.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges

sourceb.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges

End Sub



--
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

"taxmom" wrote in message
...
I need to print a postcards using 4 cards per 8 1/2 x 11 paper. I want to
put merge specific data on the front of the card and the clients name and
mailing address on the back of the card. Can anyone walk me through the
steps to do this. I am not having any problems with the mail merge
function,
I just can't figure out how to do the double sided merge. I do have
duplex
printing capabilities