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Mail-merge batch print
Hello,
I'm trying to batch print a number of mail-merge documents such that the selected record in the source is passed to all of the mail-merge documents and then printed. I thought I could solve it by combining all the mail-merge templates into a single mail-merge template, but I need different printing options for each one (eg. some in duplex and others single-paged). Is there a way to achieve this? Thanks! -- Anne Marie |
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If your printer accepts PCL commands, you *may* be able to use PRINT fields.
A PRINT field is simply a type of field that allows you to send instructions directly to the printer. There are 3 possible data values for duplex setting: PRINT 27"&l0S" simplex PRINT 27"&l1S" vertical duplex . PRINT 27"&l2S" horizontal duplex (bookformat) The codes after PRINT are 27 (escape), double quote, ampersand, lowercase L, 0, 1 or 2, uppercase S and finally terminated with a double quote. Thus for horizontal duplex you would insert the following field : { PRINT 27"&l2S" } Thus you can choose when to turn on and off the duplex function. Otherwise you would have to merge to a new document and then use a macro to selectively print. To aid that set up a separate copy of the printer driver so that one driver defaults to duplex mode and the other to simplex mode. The macro could then switch between the printer drivers according to the page numbers - see how to switch printers at http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Anne Marie" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm trying to batch print a number of mail-merge documents such that the selected record in the source is passed to all of the mail-merge documents and then printed. I thought I could solve it by combining all the mail-merge templates into a single mail-merge template, but I need different printing options for each one (eg. some in duplex and others single-paged). Is there a way to achieve this? Thanks! -- Anne Marie |
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7 Jul 2008 00:50:02 in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields, Anne Marie writes Hello, I'm trying to batch print a number of mail-merge documents such that the selected record in the source is passed to all of the mail-merge documents and then printed. I thought I could solve it by combining all the mail-merge templates into a single mail-merge template, but I need different printing options for each one (eg. some in duplex and others single-paged). Is there a way to achieve this? I would try appending a blank page with insert/break/even page after every page you want single sided and after the last page of every document which has an odd number of pages. I would then print double-sided. YMMV. I have not tried this and am a naive mailmerger. Headers and footers will need special treatment if you use them. -- Walter Briscoe |
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Thanks Graham and Walter -- I've opted for the low-tech solution (ie.
inserting page breaks into the combined template). I still wonder if there is a way to do such things via a batch program -- I used to write simple DOS code way-back-when, and haven't made the transition to VBA, so not sure if the latter is the only way to do this programmatically. -- Anne Marie "Anne Marie" wrote: Hello, I'm trying to batch print a number of mail-merge documents such that the selected record in the source is passed to all of the mail-merge documents and then printed. I thought I could solve it by combining all the mail-merge templates into a single mail-merge template, but I need different printing options for each one (eg. some in duplex and others single-paged). Is there a way to achieve this? Thanks! -- Anne Marie |
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