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Mail Merged Documents NOT Actually Printing ONLY Selected Pages
Windows XP Pro, SP3
MS Word 2002, SP3 After merging the format document and the data source into one document, it gives the option to either print or go into edit mode. I went into edit mode just to verify things are right. Yes, I know within the source list, I could select, but initially thought since things didn't print out just right for the 2nd page of labels, I would be able to tell the program to print out only page 2. Here's the symptoms that I had saw and it took place on multiple computers as well as with multiple printers with the only commonality being this specific situation of mail merge no matter which computer the tasks were performed on and no matter which printer the print job was sent to. Go to Printer dialog box and select to print only page 2. Click on OK. Word shows it being sent to the printer. Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time indicating the print request being carried out. Go to the printer itself, there is no job going to it at all, thus no printer out either. No error messages. Just acts like it never received the job. Now, if I tell it to print out ALL pages Click on OK Word shows it being sent to the printer Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time, though a bit longer cause of more pages Go to the printer itself, all pages are printed out as requested. -- Thanks, Ronald R. Dodge, Jr. Production Statistician Master MOUS 2000 |
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Thank you for the reply as using that worked. I had no idea of that
happening, but I guess I will just have to remember that for future references, which in this case happens to be using the following: p1sPage# Not really intuitive as far as I can tell. -- Thanks, Ronald R. Dodge, Jr. Production Statistician Master MOUS 2000 "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . Most likely because when you're dealing with a document produced by a merge each recipient's copy is a separate SECTION. If you want to print only a certain section it needs to be specified when you print. Try entering p1s2 (assuming the section is one page long) in the print dialog. Alternatively you can select the range of text to be printed & choose SELECTION in the print dialog. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/9/09 10:51 AM, in article , "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr." wrote: Windows XP Pro, SP3 MS Word 2002, SP3 After merging the format document and the data source into one document, it gives the option to either print or go into edit mode. I went into edit mode just to verify things are right. Yes, I know within the source list, I could select, but initially thought since things didn't print out just right for the 2nd page of labels, I would be able to tell the program to print out only page 2. Here's the symptoms that I had saw and it took place on multiple computers as well as with multiple printers with the only commonality being this specific situation of mail merge no matter which computer the tasks were performed on and no matter which printer the print job was sent to. Go to Printer dialog box and select to print only page 2. Click on OK. Word shows it being sent to the printer. Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time indicating the print request being carried out. Go to the printer itself, there is no job going to it at all, thus no printer out either. No error messages. Just acts like it never received the job. Now, if I tell it to print out ALL pages Click on OK Word shows it being sent to the printer Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time, though a bit longer cause of more pages Go to the printer itself, all pages are printed out as requested. |
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Mail Merged Documents NOT Actually Printing ONLY Selected Pages
If each section is only a page long, you can use just s# (omitting the page
number). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr." wrote in message ... Thank you for the reply as using that worked. I had no idea of that happening, but I guess I will just have to remember that for future references, which in this case happens to be using the following: p1sPage# Not really intuitive as far as I can tell. -- Thanks, Ronald R. Dodge, Jr. Production Statistician Master MOUS 2000 "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . Most likely because when you're dealing with a document produced by a merge each recipient's copy is a separate SECTION. If you want to print only a certain section it needs to be specified when you print. Try entering p1s2 (assuming the section is one page long) in the print dialog. Alternatively you can select the range of text to be printed & choose SELECTION in the print dialog. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/9/09 10:51 AM, in article , "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr." wrote: Windows XP Pro, SP3 MS Word 2002, SP3 After merging the format document and the data source into one document, it gives the option to either print or go into edit mode. I went into edit mode just to verify things are right. Yes, I know within the source list, I could select, but initially thought since things didn't print out just right for the 2nd page of labels, I would be able to tell the program to print out only page 2. Here's the symptoms that I had saw and it took place on multiple computers as well as with multiple printers with the only commonality being this specific situation of mail merge no matter which computer the tasks were performed on and no matter which printer the print job was sent to. Go to Printer dialog box and select to print only page 2. Click on OK. Word shows it being sent to the printer. Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time indicating the print request being carried out. Go to the printer itself, there is no job going to it at all, thus no printer out either. No error messages. Just acts like it never received the job. Now, if I tell it to print out ALL pages Click on OK Word shows it being sent to the printer Task bar in the tray area shows the printer icon for a short period of time, though a bit longer cause of more pages Go to the printer itself, all pages are printed out as requested. |
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Quite true ‹ I should have clarified that... Or if you want to print the
entire section regardless of length. Thanks for pointing it out. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/10/09 6:18 PM, in article , "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If each section is only a page long, you can use just s# (omitting the page number). |
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Understandable, but it becomes more "intuitive" once you wrap your head
around the fact that there is no such thing as a "page" in the structure of a Word document :-) It's a linear flow of content comprising one section unless you choose to subdivide it into more. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/10/09 6:02 PM, in article , "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr." wrote: Thank you for the reply as using that worked. I had no idea of that happening, but I guess I will just have to remember that for future references, which in this case happens to be using the following: p1sPage# Not really intuitive as far as I can tell. |
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In older applications, there were such things as pages. By the 2 of you
saying word is just a stream of data makes me think of HTML documents as HTML documents has no such thing as pages either. I guess another reason why I wouldn't have thought of Word documents to be a stream of data, whenever I have attempted to copy stuff from Word into another document (about 14 years ago), the copied data would include every single line break (rather if it was a hard one put in by the user or a soft one done by the application for word wrap purposes) unlike when I used Note Pad, even if the document did word wrap, it wouldn't carry over the soft line breaks. As a result for what I was doing with online coding, I ended up using Note Pad for that purpose instead of Word as I didn't want the soft line breaks to carry over. When the soft line breaks was copied over, it would end up splitting the code at points that would then not allow the code to work, thus why I couldn't have the soft line breaks carry over in that case. Anyhow, guess MS basically was taking Word from an isolated document to an online document. As for the 2007 version of MS Office, I don't really like it cause MS majorly changed the interface, thus means a lot of the stuff I did by keyboard no longer works and it requires significant relearning with regards to the interface. Another thing, they didn't fix many of the technical issues I have spotted and pointed out, so apparently, they were only after the interface side with only increasing a minor few of the arbitrary limitations on the technical side. One such case, though I realize this is a Word newsgroup, not Excel, according to Excel specifications, the number of defined names is limited to memory. I proved a few years back, though learned the hard way as the file that I had put in 6 digit figure of defined names into via VBA coding, I lost everything in that file except for formulas and data values when I had opened up that file again after having saved it and closed it out with such huge number of defined names to address an issue that management had caused me with regards to having to adjust so many formulas in so many different places. Anyhow, learned an Excel working can only do up to at the most, 65536 defined names. After that situation took place, I basically decided to convert a pretty good majority of my formulas to VBA code and not only that, but to make the VBA code more dynamic, I could only think of using range names to get away of absolute references within VBA. However, as a result of the issue that took place, I ended up having to come up with a compromise to address this defined names limitation within a single workbook, which I did by using rows and columns for range names. Good thing I had that particular document backed up so as I didn't have to redo everything in it as it has in it not only data and formulas, but also various formats, charts, and what not. I suspect the reason for this limitation, the Index property appear to be only a 2 byte property on the Names Collection object. Not only that, but also according to documentation, the Index property is suppose to be a LONG data type property (4 bytes), but it's acting more like an INTEGER data type property (2 bytes). -- Thanks, Ronald R. Dodge, Jr. Production Statistician Master MOUS 2000 "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . Understandable, but it becomes more "intuitive" once you wrap your head around the fact that there is no such thing as a "page" in the structure of a Word document :-) It's a linear flow of content comprising one section unless you choose to subdivide it into more. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/10/09 6:02 PM, in article , "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr." wrote: Thank you for the reply as using that worked. I had no idea of that happening, but I guess I will just have to remember that for future references, which in this case happens to be using the following: p1sPage# Not really intuitive as far as I can tell. |
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On Jun 11, 9:21*am, "Ronald R. Dodge, Jr."
wrote: As for the 2007 version of MS Office, I don't really like it cause MS majorly changed the interface, thus means a lot of the stuff I did by keyboard no longer works and it requires significant relearning with regards to the interface. * Which keyboard commands no longer work? |
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