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Old April 30th, 2010, 02:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default Why does Mail Merge create mulitple copies of the same label?

You are not actually executing the merge. Rather all that you are doing is
viewing/printing a preview of the result as you iterate through the data
source one record at a time

You must execute the merge to a printer or a new document and then you will
get the data from four records on each page.

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

or “Mail Merge with Word 2007” on fellow MVP Graham Mayor’s website at

http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

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I've created a custom 4"xc4" label with four on a page. When I mail merge
from an Excel list, each entry is duplicated on consecutive pages until I
have 4 of each. If I use 3"x4" labels with six on a page, it duplicates
the
entries until I have each one 6 times. They aren't duplicated on the same
page, but on consecutive pages in the next label position on the page.