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Old May 27th, 2004, 02:56 AM
Ava Healy
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In a mail merge document, with a header (or footer) listing page x of y total pages, I cannot get the "y of total pages" number to be the total number of pages for each, individual merged letter, and not for the doument as a whole. The "x page" correctly displays the page number of each individual letter in the merged document (for example in a 3 page letter, with page one suppressed, the first letter to John Doe reads page 2 of y, the next page reads page 3 of y (where y should equal a total page count of 3). However, if there is a total of 10 recipients, my "y of total pages" is reading page 2 of 30, page 3 of 30 in each merged letter. I have tried to correctly set this in File, Page Layout to account for the section breaks, but I must not be doing something incorrectly. Any help greatly appreciated, thank you.
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Old May 27th, 2004, 06:50 AM
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Hi Ava,

In the mailmerge main document, toggle on the field codes (Alt+F9) and
replace the { NUMPAGES } field that you will see with { SECTIONPAGES }.

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"Ava Healy" wrote in message
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In a mail merge document, with a header (or footer) listing page x of y

total pages, I cannot get the "y of total pages" number to be the total
number of pages for each, individual merged letter, and not for the doument
as a whole. The "x page" correctly displays the page number of each
individual letter in the merged document (for example in a 3 page letter,
with page one suppressed, the first letter to John Doe reads page 2 of y,
the next page reads page 3 of y (where y should equal a total page count of
3). However, if there is a total of 10 recipients, my "y of total pages" is
reading page 2 of 30, page 3 of 30 in each merged letter. I have tried to
correctly set this in File, Page Layout to account for the section breaks,
but I must not be doing something incorrectly. Any help greatly
appreciated, thank you.

 




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