Printing a document to different trays using section breaks

[bceng25]

What I'm trying to do is change the formatting of some Wordmerge documents so
that the first 2 pages will print out on the front and back of headed paper
and any subsequent pages to be printed front and back of plain paper. I have
got this to work using a next page section break at the end of page 2 but the
problem we has is that sometimes people will be typing more information into
the first 2 pages which forces the section break to drop down onto the next
page, meaning that page 3 will also print out on headed paper. Is there any
way to lock the section break into place so that no matter how much people
type the section formatting will remain the same?

 

[Jay Freedman]

No, there's no way to "lock" a section break with respect to a page
boundary, nor is there any way to type text "through" a section break.

The way I would approach this is to intercept the FilePrint and
FilePrintDefault commands (the menu item and the toolbar button,
respectively) and translate the command into two separate calls to
ActiveDocument.PrintOut -- one for pages 1 and 2, and the other for
remaining pages (if any). See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InterceptSavePrint.htm and
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=101 for
additional help.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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