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Specify a template when merging?
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. -- Colin Halliday |
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Specify a template when merging?
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. -- 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 "Colin Halliday" wrote in message ... 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. -- Colin Halliday |
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Specify a template when merging?
Thanks for the reply, but it is the mailmerge document, not the form letter
that I want to specify a template for; i.e. the document that is created when you complete the merge to a new document. Colin "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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 "Colin Halliday" wrote in message ... 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. -- Colin Halliday |
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Specify a template when merging?
If you execute the merge to a new document, then you could use the following
macro to split it into individual documents based on the template that you want to use by specifying the template in the line Set Target = Documents.Add(Template Name) Sub splitter() ' splitter Macro ' Macro created by Doug Robbins to save each letter created by a mailmerge ' as a separate file, retaining the header and footer information. Dim i As Long, Source As Document, Target As Document, Letter As Range Set Source = ActiveDocument For i = 1 To Source.Sections.Count Set Letter = Source.Sections(i).Range Set Target = Documents.Add Target.Range = Letter Target.Sections(2).PageSetup.SectionStart = wdSectionContinuous Target.SaveAs FileName:="Letter" & i Target.Close Next i End Sub -- 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 "Colin Halliday" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply, but it is the mailmerge document, not the form letter that I want to specify a template for; i.e. the document that is created when you complete the merge to a new document. Colin "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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 "Colin Halliday" wrote in message ... 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. -- Colin Halliday |
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