There is nothing to stop you creating a document from any template of your
choosing and then using that document as a mailmerge main document. Rather
than use the Mail Merge Wizard however, you should display the Mail Merge
toolbar, via ViewToolbars and then use the left-hand button on the toolbar
to change the document to a formletter type document.

It may however be one of the mailmerge events that you will need to use,
rather than a before print event, particularly if you want the event to
function during the execution of the merge to the printer.

Otherwise, you could just have the code that you wish to use in an add-in
that you could invoke whenever it is required.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Colin Halliday" wrote in message
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Is it possible to specify a template to use for the mailmerge document
rather than use the normal template?

If, for example, I wish to use the beforeprint vba event to do some
processing before printing of the merged document, I could build this into
a template and specify that this particular template be used when I
generate the merged document from the form letter document.

Thanks.

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Colin Halliday