Ross Johnson wrote:
CarlP wrote:
Win XPHome, OOo 2.0.2
I am creating a mail merge to address envelopes. I create an envelope
document, select a data source, place merge fields on the document,
add Hidden Paragraphs as needed, then run the merge. While the
starting document and the resulting merged document show one envelope
"page" per record, the page number display skips every other page (so
when looking at first page, it shows page 1, but when scrolling to the
next visible envelope "page" it shows page 3). Neither standard nor
page layout views show the blank page. I've checked for non-printing
characters but all I see is paragraph markers.
What's going on, I think, is that the field names and Hidden Paragraph
functions take up so many lines that they spill onto a second "page"
when fields are viewed, even though none of the merged addresses do.
So every record (of some 220) takes up 2 "pages" even though the
merged data doesn't.
That's definitely not the case.
I have the same problem on Linux with OOo 2.0.3 with a regular default
page style mail merge, and I couldn't find the cause anywhere. (I was
saving all merged documents as a single document by the way). In the
end, I had to get around it by telling the print to ignore automatic
blank pages. There's a checkbox in File - Print - Options(button) that
needs to be unchecked.
Is this a bug, or is something else amiss? I've checked issue tracker
and not found anything like this. Haven't checked archives as I'm on
dialup.
It's gotta be a bug, surely.
As far as I understand it, it's by design: each merged document starts
on a new page 1. That does make sence for letters, less for envelopes.
But as Ross pointed out: there's an option added to suppress printing
the blanc pages.
Greetings,
Cor
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