[Stephen Quist]

Hi,

My wife would like to format a letter with a different left margin on the
first page to accommodate some pre-printed letterhead. I looked up the
instruction from Jay Freedman and Suzanne Barnhill on the Word newsgroups.
(Thanks to you two and Graham Mayor for publishing them!). I finally
understood them, but I have a couple of follow-on questions.

My wife needs to publish a letter with Mail Merge. Can she initiate the
process from Access and get the right template from Word? Or does she need
to create a blank document from the template in Word and initiate the Mail
Merge from there?

My recollection is that Mail Merge produces one document with all the merged
text. So if the Merge results in 200 letters of two pages each, the result
is one document with 400 pages, right? (She's not going to print directly
from the merge.) Should I adapt the margin template to set different margins
for the odd and even pages in this case? I assume I can use the same
procedure with the text box for Odd page headers as well as First page
headers. Right?

Her immediate problem is limited to letters with one or two pages. But how
would one deal with longer letters and Mail Merge to get the desired
margins?

Thanks,

Steve

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A letter merge produces a single document with multiple sections. Each
section has a First Page Header and a Header if that's the way the mail
merge main document is set up. Yes, you should create the merge in Word,
using Access as the data source.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Stephen Quist" wrote in message
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Hi,

My wife would like to format a letter with a different left margin on the
first page to accommodate some pre-printed letterhead. I looked up the
instruction from Jay Freedman and Suzanne Barnhill on the Word newsgroups.
(Thanks to you two and Graham Mayor for publishing them!). I finally
understood them, but I have a couple of follow-on questions.

My wife needs to publish a letter with Mail Merge. Can she initiate the
process from Access and get the right template from Word? Or does she need
to create a blank document from the template in Word and initiate the Mail
Merge from there?

My recollection is that Mail Merge produces one document with all the
merged
text. So if the Merge results in 200 letters of two pages each, the result
is one document with 400 pages, right? (She's not going to print directly
from the merge.) Should I adapt the margin template to set different
margins
for the odd and even pages in this case? I assume I can use the same
procedure with the text box for Odd page headers as well as First page
headers. Right?

Her immediate problem is limited to letters with one or two pages. But how
would one deal with longer letters and Mail Merge to get the desired
margins?

Thanks,

Steve