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can I print mail merge to a file
I am merging a list of 3000 addresses to one letter. Print output is slow if
printing directly from mail merge in word. Can anyone advise if once the merge is done one can "print" to file so that the actual printing can be done from the file. |
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can I print mail merge to a file
You can merge to a new document instead of merging to the printer, then
print the document using Word in the usual way. (I suppose you could print directly to a .prn using the "Print to file" box in the print dialog box but I doubt it will solve this performance problem - quite a few people report that merge slows down as the record count reaches a few hundred records or so). If outputting to a new document also takes a long time - and my guess is that it will - I would consider a. doing an experiment where you create a new mail merge main document (letter) with the fields you need and some test plain text, and see if that also merges slowly. If not, it is probably worth gradually reconstructing your mail merge main document to see if anything in particular is causing the problem (for example, "formatted bullets" used to affect merge performance quite dramatically - I do not know if they still do). b. splitting your merge into smaller chunks (say 500 records per merge). This is typically a bit simpler if you are merging manually rather than trying to set up an automated process, but the thing to do it experiment first, decide what to do next. Peter Jamieson "NMCC55" wrote in message ... I am merging a list of 3000 addresses to one letter. Print output is slow if printing directly from mail merge in word. Can anyone advise if once the merge is done one can "print" to file so that the actual printing can be done from the file. |
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