can't open target file when mail merge is complete

[Jim McNabb]

I'm merging an address list with a 1/2 page letter postcard in Publisher
2003. My data source is a table in an Access 2003 mdb. The table contains
3000 records of text addresses and barcodes. Setting up the data source and
mail merge fields went smoothly. The actual merge seemed to go OK too except
it got slow around record 800. When the merge was complete, the Notebook
screen turned white but Publisher seemed busy so I waited. After a while a
message popped up saying Publisher could not open the file. I have a Presario
X6000 with 2GB RAM and 50GB free disk space which seems adequate but who
knows. Any troubleshooting ideas? Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I suspect it's the size of that database. That's a massive file.

 

[Jim McNabb]

Yes I was thinking along those lines. I'm going to add a "Group" field to the
address table and flag x records as group "A," group "B" etc. Without
changing anything else I should be able to merge smaller record sets by
applying a filter to the group field in Publisher. Knock wood.

I suspect it's the size of that database. That's a massive file.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I'm merging an address list with a 1/2 page letter postcard in Publisher
2003. My data source is a table in an Access 2003 mdb. The table contains
3000 records of text addresses and barcodes. Setting up the data source
and
mail merge fields went smoothly. The actual merge seemed to go OK too
except
it got slow around record 800. When the merge was complete, the Notebook
screen turned white but Publisher seemed busy so I waited. After a while a
message popped up saying Publisher could not open the file. I have a
Presario
X6000 with 2GB RAM and 50GB free disk space which seems adequate but who
knows. Any troubleshooting ideas? Thanks.