mike scott wrote:
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.
I've experienced the same delay Mike mentions, and wondered about file
save location. I agree, OO shouldn't do the save until the user decides
which way s/he wants the document saved. This would save time and disk
space.
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