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Default Remove automatic section breaks

When I create labels using mail merge Word 2007 automatically inserts a
section break (next page) at the end of each page. Aside from making
formatting changes slightly harder this creates a problem when I try to print
my labels. A message pops up saying that the margins of section 1 is outside
the printable area and asks me if I want to continue. If I select "yes" the
section (read: page) prints fine, but the pop-up appears for every section
(page). When printing hundreds of pages of labels at a time, this becomes
very annoying. I tried using search and replace, and cannot get that to
work. If I manually delete the section breaks I only get the pop-up once,
instead of 100+ times. But removing the section breaks manually is very
tedious and time consuming.

Is there anyway to automate the removal of the section breaks in Word 2007?
Or better yet, is there a way to set Word 2007 so that it doesn't insert a
section break at the end of every page of labels?
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Default Remove automatic section breaks

After setting up the labels, immediately before executing the merge, change
the document type to a Directory or in earlier versions of Word a Catalog
type mail merge main document.

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When I create labels using mail merge Word 2007 automatically inserts a
section break (next page) at the end of each page. Aside from making
formatting changes slightly harder this creates a problem when I try to
print
my labels. A message pops up saying that the margins of section 1 is
outside
the printable area and asks me if I want to continue. If I select "yes"
the
section (read: page) prints fine, but the pop-up appears for every section
(page). When printing hundreds of pages of labels at a time, this becomes
very annoying. I tried using search and replace, and cannot get that to
work. If I manually delete the section breaks I only get the pop-up once,
instead of 100+ times. But removing the section breaks manually is very
tedious and time consuming.

Is there anyway to automate the removal of the section breaks in Word
2007?
Or better yet, is there a way to set Word 2007 so that it doesn't insert a
section break at the end of every page of labels?



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Default Thanks Doug!

Doug,

I was pulling my hair out trying to find a solution to a VB.Net application that was doing a mail merge using MS 2003. It was a catalog and not working until I found this post. I added the line:

objMSWordDoc.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = Word.WdMailMergeMainDocType.wdCatalog

and it worked!!!

Thanks a bunch,
Mark Ham
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