Word Mail Merge document will not print.

Gaye Dougherty 

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.