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I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used Mail Merge
before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to be. I only have one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print 2 at a time on one sheet of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document formatted to where the next record should show up. On the first page it is fine, but the second page shows the same recipient that was on the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the top of the second page. I have the next record field placed after each recipient. Is there something different I need to do in order to not have duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original database file. |
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Your main document should be of the label type and the Next Record field
should only be before the first mergefield on the second post card. That however is not really what is causing the problem, which is that you have not actually executed the merge, but are just stepping through the records. With the set up that you have, when you execute the merge, you will get post cards for only the following records 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, etc. See the article "Mailmerge Labels with Word XP" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "klklklbbb" wrote in message ... I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used Mail Merge before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to be. I only have one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print 2 at a time on one sheet of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document formatted to where the next record should show up. On the first page it is fine, but the second page shows the same recipient that was on the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the top of the second page. I have the next record field placed after each recipient. Is there something different I need to do in order to not have duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original database file. |
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Also answered in another forum - please don't multi-post.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org klklklbbb wrote: I have a mass mailing that I need to go out, and I have never used Mail Merge before. I have the addresses formatted to how they need to be. I only have one hangup-- I am sending out postcards, which print 2 at a time on one sheet of paper (5 1/2 X 8) I have my document formatted to where the next record should show up. On the first page it is fine, but the second page shows the same recipient that was on the bottom of the first page as duplicat on the top of the second page. I have the next record field placed after each recipient. Is there something different I need to do in order to not have duplicate record?? There are no duplicate records on the original database file. |
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