No pages, only sections???

I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a sinlge page
containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows as Page 1
in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the current
page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor is on, but why
do I not see all the different pages in the Status Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections, each of
one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form letter. You can
select sections for printing by putting the section numbers in the print
pages box e.g. s1-s3

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows as
Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different Section
(18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor
is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the Status Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections,
each of one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form
letter. You can select sections for printing by putting the section
numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows as
Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different Section
(18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor
is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the Status
Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

Merge to a new document and replace the section breaks (^b) with page breaks
(^m).

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Paul Lautman wrote:
Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections,
each of one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form
letter. You can select sections for printing by putting the section
numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows
as Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different
Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor
is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the Status
Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

So there is no way to have this done in the merge itself, one has to run a
change command after the merge?


Graham Mayor wrote:
Merge to a new document and replace the section breaks (^b) with page
breaks (^m).


Paul Lautman wrote:
Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections,
each of one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form
letter. You can select sections for printing by putting the section
numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows
as Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different
Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor
is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the Status
Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

Correct - though if the 'pages' are to remain in a single document, I can't
see why you would need to change it. The document will look the same, only
the status bar page indication will be different.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Paul Lautman wrote:
So there is no way to have this done in the merge itself, one has to
run a change command after the merge?


Graham Mayor wrote:
Merge to a new document and replace the section breaks (^b) with page
breaks (^m).


Paul Lautman wrote:
Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections,
each of one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form
letter. You can select sections for printing by putting the section
numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows
as Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different
Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the
cursor is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the
Status Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

I quite agree, the last was just curiosity.

Thanks for your help Graham.

Don't suppose you've got any ideas about my previous post??

TIA
Paul

Graham Mayor wrote:
Correct - though if the 'pages' are to remain in a single document, I
can't see why you would need to change it. The document will look the
same, only the status bar page indication will be different.


Paul Lautman wrote:
So there is no way to have this done in the merge itself, one has to
run a change command after the merge?


Graham Mayor wrote:
Merge to a new document and replace the section breaks (^b) with
page breaks (^m).


Paul Lautman wrote:
Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18
sections, each of one page. Each section corresponds to an
individual form letter. You can select sections for printing by
putting the section numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always
shows as Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a
different Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only
the current page and it does indeed only print the page that the
cursor is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the
Status Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman

Paul,

You can do this in the merge itself by selecting "Directory" for document
type. You'll want to have a page break at the end of the merge form since
this will create a single document.

Mike

"Paul Lautman" wrote in message
...
So there is no way to have this done in the merge itself, one has to run a
change command after the merge?


Graham Mayor wrote:
Merge to a new document and replace the section breaks (^b) with page
breaks (^m).


Paul Lautman wrote:
Ahh. Is there a way to produce a document containing 18 pages?

Graham Mayor wrote:
What you have produced is a merged document containing 18 sections,
each of one page. Each section corresponds to an individual form
letter. You can select sections for printing by putting the section
numbers in the print pages box e.g. s1-s3


Paul Lautman wrote:
I just performed a merge with a couple of documents both with a
sinlge page containing a single table.

The merge should produce 18 pages.

However, when I place the cursor in an page, the page always shows
as Page 1 in the Word Status Bar. Each page shows as a different
Section (18 in all).

If I go to the print dialog, I am able to select to print only the
current page and it does indeed only print the page that the cursor
is on, but why do I not see all the different pages in the Status
Bar?

Any ideas?

TIA
Paul Lautman