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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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