Re: MailMerge vs. Catalog

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From: Peter Jamieson (pjj_at_KillmapSpjjnet.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:53:33 -0000

Have you definitely tried "Keep Lines Together" /without any/ "Keep With
Next" formatting? If so, when you have merged to your new doucment, do the
paragraphs retain the formatting you specified? 

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Peter Jamieson - Word MVP
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/
"Bill Yellin" <wyellin@co.dutchess.ny.us> wrote in message
news:5cc3c5ba.0402220938.380c39ef@posting.google.com...
> Howdy, folks!
> I have a variable-length note that I need to print to about 100
> people. The variability comes from conditional printing based on data
> coming from my data source.
>
> I'll get four or five records per page, then cut them up and
> distribute them.
>
> Problem: Using a Mail Merge, I get a new page for each record. I
> understand this is standard behaviour for Word, despite the
> PageSetup..Layout..SectionStart setting. I can go into the resulting
> document and change it to 'Continuous', but when I do this job next
> year, who's gonna remember that?
>
> Changed it to a 'Catalog' merge, based on research in this newsgroup.
> Now, it works great, except that I can't get the last record on each
> page to 'keep together', despite the
> Format..Paragraph..LineAndPageBreaks 'Keep with Next' and/or 'Keep
> Lines Together' settings.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> To summarize, I need to print a short variable-length note merged with
> data, using the maximum amount of space on each page to minimize
> waste. The resulting document needs to be multi-record per page, with
> no record's note being broken by a page.
>
> Thanks in advance.....Bill

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