Print specific pgs within sections of document

[Deborah]

I have a very large mail merge document and only want to re-print the 1st an 2nd page of each letter, Word will not allow me to do that. I tried putting in S49 for the section, but it prints the entire section (which I don't want). I tried printing out the pg number, but that doesn't work either. I searched for help and the closest I came was MS having a section on printing multiple-section documents. It said to read the entire article, but I couldn't find it. Can ANYONE please help. These are time sensitive letters and I need help as soon an possible. I really HATE to have to print all the document pages again.

Thank You

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have a very large mail merge document and only want to re-print the 1st an 2nd page of each letter, Word will not allow me to do that. I tried putting in S49 for the section, but it prints the entire section (which I don't want). I tried printing out the pg number, but that doesn't work either.

Did you try something like S49P1-S49P2 (or maybe the S and P elements need to be reversed; I never can keep that straight)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Graham Mayor]

It's the other way round
p1s49-p2s49

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[Graham Mayor]

Time for some lateral thinking as this document is obviously a problem to
print bits from

I think I would be inclined to split up the merge into separate letters in a
dedicated folder using the code at:
http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm

and then I would use the following macro to print out pages 1 and 2 of each
of the documents in that folder. This will at least automate the task and
save your patience

Sub PrintAll()
aDOC = Dir("D:\My Documents\Tests\Merge\*.DOC")
Do While aDOC <> ""
Application.PrintOut FileName:=aDOC, Range:=wdPrintRangeOfPages,
Pages:="1-2"
aDOC = Dir()
Loop
End Sub

Make sure the document path matches the path in the other macro (ie to the
location where the documents are saved), should you need to change it.

You may need this too - http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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