Re: mail merge to more than one documents

From: Doug Robbins (dkr_at_NOmvpsSPAM.org)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:49:26 -0400

If you run the following macro over the document produced by executing the
merge to a new document, it will split that document into separate documents
for each record, saving them with a sequential number:

' Macro created by Doug Robbins to save each letter created by a mailmerge
as a separate file.

Dim i As Long, Source as Document, Target as Document, Letter as Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
For i = 1 to Source.Sections.Count
    Set Letter = Source.Sections(i).Range
    Letter.End=Letter.End-1
    Set Target = Documents.Add
    Target.Range=Letter
    Target.SaveAs FileName:="Letter" & i
    Target.Close
Next i

If you want to save them with a filename obtained from a field in the data
source,
here's a method that I have used that involves creating a separate
catalog type mailmerge maindocument which creates a word document containing
a table in each row of which would be your data from the database that you
want to use as the filename.

You first execute that mailmerge, then save that file and close it. Then
execute the mailmerge that you want to create the separate files from and
with the
result of that on the screen, run a macro containing the following code
and when the File open dialog appears, select the file containing the table
created by the first mailmerge

' Throw Away Macro created by Doug Robbins
'
Dim Source As Document, oblist As Document, DocName As Range, DocumentName
As String
Dim i As Long, doctext As Range, target As Document
Set Source = ActiveDocument
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
    .Show
End With
Set oblist = ActiveDocument
Counter = 1
For i = 1 To oblist.Tables(1).Rows.Count
    Set DocName = oblist.Tables(1).Cell(i, 1).Range
    DocName.End = DocName.End - 1

    'Change the path in the following command to suit where you want to save
the documents.
    DocumentName = "I:\WorkArea\Documentum\" & DocName.Text
    Set doctext = Source.Sections(i).Range
    doctext.End = doctext.End - 1
    Set target = Documents.Add
    target.Range.FormattedText = doctext
    target.SaveAs FileName:=DocumentName
    target.Close
Next i 

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Matthias Greinke" <computers@esn.se> wrote in message 
news:%23MBQ2PkmEHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> hi
>
> Is it possible to merge records into a new document per record? Example: 
> I´m
> having 200 records in Excel, which shall be merged with a Word letter into
> 200 new documents... I have searched everywhere on newsgroups and asked
> friends, noone seems to know :o/  So thanx for any helpful comment.
> /Matthias
>
>

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