I have had significant, repeated problems bringing in merge documents created
in Word 2003 as well as creating from scratch.
Constant problem: with "margins of section 1 are set outside the printable
area of the page" with nothing I can find to correct it, for example. And if
I just click on "ignore" for every page, they print fine. But that's a LOT of
clicking... These merges worked flawlessly in Word03.
Ok, as to your questions:
Label format: Avery label 5160. (1x2.63, 3 across)
Margins created: Top: .5, Bottom: 0, Left and Right: .19
When you check margins and click ok, it gives you the warning and option to
fix margins. It does, to:
Top: .5, Bottom: .17, Left: .19 and right: .33
If you use these settings, you will print too far to the left for the labels.
I had to manually change the left margin to .4
Saving that, the labels print correctly.
The only way I can print is to merge to a new document and print that.
I did notice yesterday, that after printing a set of labels (after first
having it only print 1 page and the error message I originally posted), when
I went to print something else, a complete second set of the labels printed.
So I'm guessing they were still stored in memory somehow.
I print to a HP Laserjet 1200.
Hope this helps isolate what might be going on.
"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:
Hi ?B?VG9za2V5?=,
OK, this is a start, but we need more information in order to try to reproduce
(and thus report) the problem.
1. A label mail merge. OK. What label format (number)?
2. Which margin setting do you get, and what do you have to change it to?
3. If you merge to a new document does that finish correctly? If yes, what
happens when you try to print that?
4. What printer are you using?
Word crashes when I try "Finish & Merge" to the printer. If it doesn't crash,
it prints one page correctly and then this message on 2nd page:
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IlegalTag
Operator: 0x1b
Position: 2681
Also, when creating the merge document, I selected the correct Avery labels,
but the finished merge doc did not create the correct left margin. I had to
manually change it.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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