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Word Mail Merge document will not print.
Printing a selection of pages after a mail merge has always been a problem and still is.
The mailmerge documents are seperated by section breaks instead of page breaks.
Printing "current page" can help, this always works.
But if you have several pages a solution could be to first replace the section breaks by page breaks.
(I use a Dutch Word, so forgive me if some of the terminology is not translated correctly).
This is how it works:
Go to "Zoeken en vervangen" (Find and Replace)
Click "Zoeken naar" (Find (?))
Select "Meer" (More (?))
Select "Speciaal" (Special (?))
Choose "Sectie-einde" (Section Break or type ^b)
Click "Vervangen door" (Replace by)
Select "Speciaal" (Special (?))
Choose "Handmatig Pagina-einde" (Manual page break or typ ^m
Click "Alles vervangen" (Replace all)
You should be able to print from page X tot XXX without a problem.
- Thanks. Worked like a charm!
Petra-Van-Horen thank you so much! Removing the section breaks worked for me!
- Thanks Petra. You saved the day.
Thank you for your solution for printing selected pages from a merged doc.
I'm a WordPerfect user and had to convert documents and data into Word and Excel. The conversion was easier than I feared. Everything looked fine until we tried to print pages from the middle. Thanks again for your help.
LP_NYC1430 , you're welcome!
Ok here is my issue. I am using word 365 on my Mac. I have successfully been able to print labels. the issue is when I go to individually edit my MM document letters, only every other one is printed to the merged documents. In the merge preview I see all of the merged records correctly. Yes the section Breaks are there. I have tried to replace them with page breaks. But when I go and merge all of the documents only the odd pages are printed. I would prefer to not to do this using my parallels and doing this only in Word 365 for Microsoft. Word to the wise, no pun intended, it does work in there but I would like to know if there is an answer for this in the Mac Version????
