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Default why do I get [a lot of] duplicate labels when I use mail merge

Are you sure that there are Next Record fields in all "labels" in the
mail merge main document except for the first one?

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"Logikal1" wrote in message
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Dear Graham,

while your site is AWESOME and was helpful- I HIGHLY recommend it to
everyone!-unfortunately, it didn't solve my problem. I went through the
label process step by step, and S.O.B- i still ended up with literally
dozens
and dozens of duplicates. Where I should have had about 120 labels, I
ended
up with 339!

They are scattered throughout the label merge, so they might go albacore,
alpha, angel, attitude. alpha, badly, banter, angel, attitude, barcode,
barter, canopy, badly, banter, etc.

I can't figure out for the life of me WHY it's doing this! I also found
the
usual voice controls for 'edit' 'paste' and 'cut' don't work with my voice
softwa which makes my life a lot harder ( I have MS, so typing is time
consuming when I have to do it manually)

I'm still very open for HELP!

thanks in advance
Logikal 1

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If you chose to install 2007 alongside Word 2003, both should be
available,
though not without some conflicts - see
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

From your description of the merge it is impossible to spot the
deliberate
mistake, however I suspect you are previewing the source document and not
completing the merge. You must merge to a new document or the printer to
see
the merge as it is completed see
http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm.
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

This was exactly the same in 2003!

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Logikal1 wrote:
I'm trying to print out ONE set of labels using the new 2007 WORD
[which has disabled my 2003 version so i'm really stuck]. I made a
mail merge of approximately 100 titles and added graphics etc. But,
when I went to preview I got a shocl: I get over 390 labels due to
constant duplications! They're supposed to be in alphabetical order,
yet they keep jumping back and restarting at different points. How
can I correct this problem?