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I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used Mail Merge
before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to be. I only have
one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print 2 at a time on one sheet
of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document formatted to where the next record
should show up. On the first page it is fine, but the second page shows the
same recipient that was on the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the
top of the second page. I have the next record field placed after each
recipient. Is there something different I need to do in order to not have
duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original database
file.
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Your main document should be of the label type and the Next Record field
should only be before the first mergefield on the second post card.

That however is not really what is causing the problem, which is that you
have not actually executed the merge, but are just stepping through the
records. With the set up that you have, when you execute the merge, you
will get post cards for only the following records 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, etc.

See the article "Mailmerge Labels with Word XP" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm


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I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used Mail
Merge
before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to be. I only have
one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print 2 at a time on one
sheet
of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document formatted to where the next record
should show up. On the first page it is fine, but the second page shows
the
same recipient that was on the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the
top of the second page. I have the next record field placed after each
recipient. Is there something different I need to do in order to not have
duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original database
file.



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Default Next record problems...

Also answered in another forum - please don't multi-post.

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klklklbbb wrote:
I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used
Mail Merge before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to
be. I only have one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print
2 at a time on one sheet of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document
formatted to where the next record should show up. On the first page
it is fine, but the second page shows the same recipient that was on
the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the top of the second
page. I have the next record field placed after each recipient.
Is there something different I need to do in order to not have
duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original
database file.



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