[Peter Jamieson]

What happens at print time if he clicks "Ignore" when the "Fix margins"
message appears?

The problem with the section breaks is likely to be that there is nothing
between the table on one page and the table on the next except the section
break. In that case, Word may not do the replacement.

If you can add an extra paragraph mark before the table without upsetting
the label layout (I don't know if it's possible in this case, but perhaps
you could format the paragraph mark font size as 1 point) then re-execute
the merge to a new document, you should be able to do a global Edit|Replace
of ^b by ^m.

Best I can do for now.

Peter Jamieson


"Matthew Lemin" wrote in message
...
A friend has a major problem with a 250 page label mail merge document. He
needs to change some page layout settings for the whole document but it is
only letting him change the first page. When he tries to "apply to whole
document" it comes up with a "fix margins" box that won't go away unless
he
applies it to the current section only. I have replicated this on my own
computer as well. It uses standard A4 Avery label 7165 (parcel label).

I noticed that each page is separated by a Section break (next page). So
I
decided to try and use "find and replace" to replace all the section
breaks
with page breaks. This did not work as although it would find the section
breaks it just would not replace them with page breaks - it basically just
ignored my command.

So, in order to get this to work he now has to manually delete every
section
break at the end of every page of 250 pages!

He does one of these mail merges every week - and does not fancy going
through this process every time. He has Office 2000 on his home machine
and
this works fine.

Is there any way to
a. get Word to separate pages with a page break rather than a section
break
b. force Word to replace the section breaks with page breaks, or
c. create a document with automatic page breaks?

All help gratefully received.