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Word/Access Merge and duplicate lines at end/beginning of page
Hi everyone - hope someone can help.
I have a 130 page document that I "personalize" using Access and merge with a word document that contains the merge codes. I merge ten documents at a time into a 1,300 page document that gets printed. My problem is that every once in a while on one of two pages of the merged document - a line from the bottom of one page shows up (is repeated) at the top of the next page. Everyone thinks we've made a typing mistake but we haven't - Access/Word has generated the duplicate line. This problem occurs rarely but can be duplicated using the same template and merge info when the duplicate does appear. Seems very odd... MS gremlins??? I've viewed the document via control - shift - asterisk and everything looks fine but I'm not sure what I should look for in the way of unwanted codes. I see paragraph tags with a small square in front and paragraph tags with a dot in front - but they are throughout the document so I don't think this is the problem. Any suggestion or comments would be appreciated! |
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Word/Access Merge and duplicate lines at end/beginning of page
Hi Kathy,
I have a 130 page document that I "personalize" using Access and merge with a word document that contains the merge codes. I merge ten documents at a time into a 1,300 page document that gets printed. I'm not sure I understand what you're doing, here. Are you saying you merge the 130 page document with 10 records? Or is there another step/document in here? My initial reaction was, it must be some kind of document corruption. After reading about the squares in front of the paragraph marks (which is decidedly not "normal"), I still lean in that direction, although there may be other factors at work. Was this document (or any part of it) originally imported from another file format? WordPerfect, for example? If you press Alt+F9 (toggles field codes on/off) then use Edit/Find to search Private, do you turn up anything that looks like { PRIVATE }? My problem is that every once in a while on one of two pages of the merged document - a line from the bottom of one page shows up (is repeated) at the top of the next page. Everyone thinks we've made a typing mistake but we haven't - Access/Word has generated the duplicate line. This problem occurs rarely but can be duplicated using the same template and merge info when the duplicate does appear. Seems very odd... MS gremlins??? I've viewed the document via control - shift - asterisk and everything looks fine but I'm not sure what I should look for in the way of unwanted codes. I see paragraph tags with a small square in front and paragraph tags with a dot in front - but they are throughout the document so I don't think this is the problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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