In news:[email protected], James Wilde <[email protected]> typed: > On May 26, 2010, at 02:27 , Dave Stevens wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I have a need to do a mail merge in which the merged text >> is a sequence of contiguous paragraphs on continuous >> pages, rather than a sequence of pages with 1 paragraph >> one each successive page. The only way I've discovered to >> do this is to take the 1 para/page text save it as doc.txt >> which removes the page breaks. Unfortunately it also >> removes all the formatting. Is there a simple way to force >> the text to be all on one sequence of pages in a single >> document? >> >> so what I'd like is: >> >> merged paragraph >> blank line >> merged paragraph >> blank line > ... > > If what you're after is selecting paragraphs from a > superset of paragraphs, you might just be looking at a > master document. In that case you create the master > document then link to the paragraphs you want in any > particular case. You would need a separate MD for each > collection of paragraphs, but then, you'd need a separate > document for each mailmerge anyway. > > Since you're using mailmerge, I assume each paragraph is a > separate document. They would have to be for this to work > with a MD, I think, since one links to subdocuments, not > paragraphs in another document. > > //James=
I don't know about the most current version, but all preceding versions of Word are dangerous to use Master Documents with. Unless you avoid doing some things as simply as editing a subdoc from the MD, you can trash your subdocs. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/general/whymasterdocscorrupt.htm http://www.techwr-l.com/articles/general/masterdocs http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/RecoverMasterDocs.htm http://lists.dcomp.com/pipermail/word/2010-March/002192.html If you happen to have Open Office Writer, its Master Document feature works flawlessly albeit with fewer options. It does all the needed stuff though; page numbers, headers/footers, styles, etc.. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
