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Word Mail Merge document will not print.
Each record in a mail merge creates a separate Word Section when you merge to a document. Page numbering will restart at the beginning of each of these sections. If you have no section breaks in the main document, those will be the only section breaks in the document and the solution of replacing section breaks (^b) with page breaks (^m) will work fine.
If there are page numbers, the restart of numbering will stop so that page 2 in section 6 may now be numbered page 12.
Better practice is to turn on display of sections in the status bar and simply print the page.
Printing with Multiple Sections
Here is the status bar showing the formatted page number (1) and the Section (3).
It is a five - page document that has three sections in it.
To print this record, I would print by section and page, examining the status bar for the pages.
The format for this is pxsx.
To print this document I would insert the following page numbers:
p1s7-p5s9 The page number is the formatted page number in the section.
- True and thank you. My "solution" only works for 1 page letters in a mailmerge.
- I know this may not apply, but a few years ago I had a sudden "would not print" issue. I ended up going back to a point the mail merge worked and figured out it was one of the records we had recently add. Then I narrowed it down to the email address associated with the record. When we print the mail merge mailing labels, we include the account email address on line two under the name. For some reason this one particular email address was throwing a wrench in the process. Never did figure out the what or why. Just a weird glitch. We did know the email address was in fact valid and correctly formatted.
