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letterhead on mail merge
Is it possible to make a mail merged document serveral hundred pages long
print every 3rd page via the manual feed tray so that the first page of the 3 page letter goes onto my letterheaded paper and the following ones onto blank paper? |
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It should work, in theory, if you use File|Page Setup|Paper to set the
printer tray for the "first page" to "manual feed" and the "other pages" to your normal feeder. If you merge to a new document, you should see that each letter is contained in a single Word section, and examination of the first few sections should show that the paper setup is retained in the output document. However, I hesitate for several reasons: a. I don't have a printer here that makes it easy to experiment with different trays. In fact, whatever I do seems to go wrong, because I have to change the physical configuration of the printer to use the different "trays", and printing seems to hang up. It is possible that you will encounter similar difficulties with yours. Further, I cannot easily verify that printing directly to the printer is the same as outputting to a new document, then printing. b. I am not sure that every version of Word gets this right. I seem to remember that in some versions (possibly fixed in Service packs) the difference between "first page" and subsequent pages" is lost after section 1. It seems OK in the fully up-to-date version of Word 2003. c. Your printer driver may be a critical factor in making this work. It may or may not behave the way you hope. In particular, it might do things such as "if the manual tray is empty, don't wait, just take the next sheet from an automatic tray". I hope not, but if you are producing several hundred letters you need to be sure. Personally, I would do a small-scale experiment with the equipment you are intending to use, establish the basic feasibility of the operation, then consider carefully whether you are going to attempt to do a single batch with several hundred letters (i.e. whether everything has to work perfectly or you may spend a lot of time sorting out which letterhead goes with which page 2/3), or do the merge in smaller batches that make it easier to recover from any printing problems that may occur. Peter Jamieson d. "markme" wrote in message news Is it possible to make a mail merged document serveral hundred pages long print every 3rd page via the manual feed tray so that the first page of the 3 page letter goes onto my letterheaded paper and the following ones onto blank paper? |
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