How to remove automatically some pages?

I understand.

I thought that everything was OK but I have one problem:
the additional character damages to keeping a part of the first line
in the center.

I put in Excel file an addition column and the character "\" is put in it,
if the page in Word should be deleted or the character " ", if the page
in Word should'n be deleted. What is put : "\" or " " depends on other
values in Excel file.
Everything is OK but the first line on pages with " " is moved much
more to the left than the 1 character (" ") should use (the same happens
to pages with "\" but it is not important as they are deleted afterwards).

The first line on each page consists of the constant text and a number
that is put during the MailMerge process, like this

ABCDEF GHIJ KLMNOP {MERGEFIELD No}

The text should be in the center of the page, and the No on the right side.

After I added the character it looks like this:
{MERGEFIELD Char}ABCDEF GHIJ KLMNOP {MERGEFIELD No}

(Before I put the additional character everything was OK and the constant text
was in the center)

My MailMerge "source" file consist of 5 pages, not just one. After the process
of MailMerging I delete the "extra" pages using the macro from you.
Each of the "source" 5 pages has similar first line as I described above.

Could you help me once more, please?

Regards
Tico



U¿ytkownik "Graham Mayor" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci ...
Page is a vague concept in Word which is not a page layout application and if you remove pages the document reflows to create a
new 'page' structure.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Tico wrote:
Thank you both very, very much once again.

I used the macro to the big MailMerge output file and it works
perfectly. The macro would work faster if it could test just the first character
on each page but I don't know how to change it. But it works very well
and I am very grateful.

As for a tutorial I expected something I had when I learnt other
languages which began with "Hello World" or something like this. Then, step by
step, it showed how to use more and more complicated language tools.

Regards
Tico


U¿ytkownik "Graham Mayor" napisa³ w
wiadomo¶ci ...
If you are splitting the results of a mail merge, see
http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm As Doug says, the only way to learn vba is to put it to use to
perform simple tasks and then get more adventurous. You can always
use the macro recorder to give you some ideas. It is by no means
perfect but it does help get you started. You will find lots of coding examples in the vba programming forums
and on various web site, including my own. The vba help in Word 2007 is rather better than in earlier versions.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Tico wrote:
Thank you very, very much.
I created a sample file and it works!
Now I have to put the macro into my big file which is a result of
MailMerge and make a lot of tests.

By the way, I know almost nothing about VBA for Word.
I looked at your page and I found a lot of interesting things there.
However what I need most at the moment is any tutorial how to create
simple macros in Word from the very beginning. Not just examples,
which are important too, but first of all the most basic rules.
I read that one of ways is to record macros using Word and then
to analyse it in VBA Editor. I think that this can be useful later,
when you know a lot, but not at the beginning.
I am looking for any lessons, step by step showing what is
neccessary in a macro and what it means. Then more and more
functions to write working macros.
Having such background I'll be able to learn using other methods.

I tried to find anything like this in the Internet to download or
use on line, but without any success. I found a lot for Excel but I
read that the rules are not the same.

Could you please advice me anything suitable for a person who
is just starting with writing macros for Word?

Thanks again for your help.

Regards
Tico


U¿ytkownik "Graham Mayor" napisa³ w
wiadomo¶ci ...
The lines indicated in red have wrapped prematurely use the
following which should not wrap Sub DeleteMarkedPages()
Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
Do While .Execute(findText:="\", _
MatchWildcards:=False, _
Wrap:=wdFindContinue, _
Forward:=True) = True
Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Delete
Loop
End With

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

The macro will remove any page with the \ character in Word 2007
and should work in Word 97 also, though I don't have it available
to check. Word 2007 will open a Word document from Word 97 without
the need to 'convert' it. --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Tico wrote:
Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about macros to be able to use
the macro. When I tried to use it I got the following lines in
red: Do While .Execute(FindText:="#*#", MatchWildcards:=False,
Wrap:=wdFindContinue, Forward:=True) = True
Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Delete
regardless what I replaced the "#*#" with.
My special character is \. I don't even know what I should writei
n the macro: "#\#", "\" or simply \
I haven't found FindText in the "VBA for Dummies" for Office 97
that I have so I think I should save my file as Word 2007 first
and then use the macro. I have Office 2007 (home edition) but I
am not familiar with it yet, at least not to use macros.
I am afraid I'll have to remove the pages manually. :-(

Regards
Tico


U¿ytkownik "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...
Use a macro containing the following code where you replace the
#*# with the special character that you intend to use.
Selection.HomeKey wdStory Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
Do While .Execute(FindText:="#*#", MatchWildcards:=False,
Wrap:=wdFindContinue, Forward:=True) = True
Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Delete Loop
End With


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"Tico" wrote in message
...
Hi All,

I have a big MS Word 97 file.
I am looking for any method that let me remove
automatically some pages which I can mark
using, for example, a special character as the
first on each page or in any other way.
I would be also satisfied if I could automatically
skip the pages whilst printing the file.

I can use the MS Word 2007 to do it, if necessary.

Could anyone help me please?
The matter is urgent.:-)

Regards
Tico