On 10 Dec 2005 at 1:56, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > CarlP wrote: > > > WinXP Home, OO 2, Athlon 1.7GHz, Brother HL-1440 > > > > Is there a way to merge a document and its data source into a single > > file instead of individual files for each record? I tried doing this > > to allow me to duplex print (couldn't get the printer setup to work - > > I've since resolved that) but I got individual files for each record. > > I'm glad it was only a small merge of 30 or so records, not several > > thousand. ... > You can use a macro, but it seems silly that they do not support writing > it to a single file. I have seen macros that do this. Even helped write one
It appears that the wizard creates large numbers of documents, then on its final page offers the option of saving as just the one. Sorry guys, but this is more bad design in mail merge - it takes minutes of disk clattering on my m/c to create all the individual documents (where does it put them???), and I really shouldn't have to wait that sort of time to answer further questions for the wizard. Not that it ever gets to the end - it seems to hang at various places in my 208-record address book in a disk-busy state from which xp's task manager has great difficulty aborting the program. By the way, there's no way of selecting the records I want merged - I assume this should be via 'select different address list' and then 'filter', but this does nothing at all. -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
