Hi,

Like many others before, I am trying to use automation to split a mail
merge Word file. I've searched the groups and found several solutions
but they all seem to have a fatal flaw.

The creation of the separate files works fine but each file has the
trailing section break in it. I've tried doing a MoveUp followed by a
Delete. I've tried doing a find and replace on the "^b" character. But
they both end up with the formatting being lost.

I know that sections contain the header/footer information, page setup,
etc but I'd have thought the first section's setup would be stored in
the implicit first section and the section break next page would hold
the information for the second, empty section. So I am surprised that
deleting the second section has any effect on the first section.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem? Is there something
obvious I'm missing like a 'retain formatting' flag? I've tried
grabbling the PageSetup object prior to removing the trailing sction
break and then re-applying it again afterwards but that does not work.
The only file in which the formatting remains correct is the last one
and that is the only one that does not have a trailing section break.

Any suggestions gratefully received,
Phil

N.B. I am writing code in C# and accessing the Word functionality via
the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word wrapper.