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Old May 15th, 2004, 10:37 PM
Sandy
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Default Section Breaks in Mail merge docs

How many pages is your originating document? If its one
page, and you are merging to several recipients, it
automatically inserts continuous section breaks, which is
not the correct way, as indicated. Control the
headers/footers with the "different first page" selection
or, there is also a selection for "same as previous".
Otherwise, if the document may have variable pages (ie if
you insert extra text) I will do my main document with
a "dummy" second page and then deleted prior to save of
the template, which contains the correct information for
the header/footer.
-----Original Message-----
I am using Continuous section breaks to control headers
and footers in a mail merge document. The problem I
encounter is that Word substitutes a New Page section

for
the Continuous page section when I do the merge - so the
output docs have inappropriate page breaks.

An added complication, which I'm not sure has any

bearing,
is that the main doc contains 'conditional paragraphs'
stored in bookmarks, and some of these paragraphs have
section breaks in them. This is all driven by a 3rd

party
application which decides what the output should be for
each customer and selects the appropriate
bookmarks/paragraphs, merges with data and outputs
accordingly. Consequently, some of the output docs have
only one section break, some have several. Word seems

to
substitute the last section break on the first page with

a
New Page one.

Has anyone else encountered this or similar problem, and
found a workaround?

I would be very grateful for any advice!

Charles.

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