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How do I save a merged file to a regular Word file?



 
 
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Old August 3rd, 2009, 06:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Barbara N
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Default How do I save a merged file to a regular Word file?

I have a mailing list which I would like to email to someone else to print
labels. Several years back in an earlier version of Word I simply saved the
final merged file to a Word document. With Word 2003 each time I open the
final merged file Word runs the SQL command to merges it again with my data
file. If I tell it not do do so, it brings up my data but the formatting is
off. Is there a way to achieve the final output file as I did previously?
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Old August 3rd, 2009, 08:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Peter Jamieson
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Default How do I save a merged file to a regular Word file?

Are you definitely /merging/ to a new document, then saving that new
document? If instead you are /printing/ from the mail merge main
document, then saving the mail merge main document, you would see the
behaviour you describe.

Typically when you merge to a new document, the new document's window is
called something like Labels1, Labels2 etc.

Peter Jamieson

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Barbara N wrote:
I have a mailing list which I would like to email to someone else to print
labels. Several years back in an earlier version of Word I simply saved the
final merged file to a Word document. With Word 2003 each time I open the
final merged file Word runs the SQL command to merges it again with my data
file. If I tell it not do do so, it brings up my data but the formatting is
off. Is there a way to achieve the final output file as I did previously?

 




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