While creating a merged doc with an Excel data base, I am having trouble with
the results of page x of y. I get page 1 of 7 on all pages. I should be
getting 1 of 7, 2 of 7 etc. I believe it has to do with the section breaks
that are created by the merge. I am using Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) on a
corporate network.

A form letter merge creates a new document hat is a colection of individual
documents each broken by a section. Each section will be re-numbered so what
you are seeing is correct..

What should be normally be used instead of {Page} of {NumPages} is {Page} of
{SectionPages}.

For a one page merge letter this will give you page 1 of 1 in each section.

If you want the numbering to run through the document then the simplest
method is to merge to a new document and add the numbering - {Page} of
{NumPages}- to the new document, setting the header in the first page to
continue from the previous section.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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jim c wrote:
While creating a merged doc with an Excel data base, I am having
trouble with the results of page x of y. I get page 1 of 7 on all
pages. I should be getting 1 of 7, 2 of 7 etc. I believe it has to
do with the section breaks that are created by the merge. I am using
Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) on a corporate network.

Alternatively, you could set up your merge document as a catalogue instead of
a form letter. Make sure you throw in the "normal" page break at the end of
the record.

"jim c" wrote:

While creating a merged doc with an Excel data base, I am having trouble with
the results of page x of y. I get page 1 of 7 on all pages. I should be
getting 1 of 7, 2 of 7 etc. I believe it has to do with the section breaks
that are created by the merge. I am using Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) on a
corporate network.