Re: How do I eliminate extra blank pages from a mail merge?

Check the formatting of the first paragraph in the main document to make
sure that it is not formatted to have a page break before it.

When the merge is executed to a new document, a Next Page Section Break will
be inserted at the end of the page(s) created for each record, so if you
have the first paragraph formatted with a page break before it, that would
amount to two page break commands.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Charlie in Alaska" <Charlie in Alaska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:B514B7C8-6FAF-4CED-B419-BD8CDDA38B85@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am wondering why the foolowing problem occurs and how to fix it: When I
complete a merge in Word (2002), the resulting document includes a blank
page in between each actual page. These blank pages do not show on
screen,
but the document does get numbered as if they are in the document, and
these
blank pages also print, creating a hassle of sorting and often wasting
paper.


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