Hi Paul,

Is using the subdocument command the wrong command to use? Is there
not a way to say "Start each subdocument as a new document"

No, there's not. The Master Document feature was actually designed to bring
things together for printing, not pull them apart :-) Also, a MasterDoc isn't
reknowned for being the most stable construct...

The object model does have a way to open each subdocument in a master
document, then save it as a separate file. You'll find this in the example on
my website for "pulling apart" a mail merge document (separate file for each
record). You can test how well that works on a document resulting from a
mailmerge. I can't see off-hand any reason it would not work, but I've never
tried it, either, so have no idea what effect mail merge might have on the
master document. I do suggest, however, that you choose a CATALOG type merge
to avoid getting any stray section breaks.

I'm not clear on what you mean by the "multiple documents" that should
result. Do you mean a separate document for each record you're merging?
Or separate documents containing all the records for each of the "main"
documents you're pulling in using the SubDocument feature?

For the former (pulling apart the resulting records of a merge) there
are various approaches (my website and word.mvps.org). But most of them
base on the fact that a section break is inserted between each new
record. However, since you're using the SubDocument feature, your main
document is already chock full of section breaks...

Assuming that only the mail merge is inserting New Page section breaks,
you could try modifying either of these approaches to test for that type
of section break.

Or, if this is Word 2002/2003 you might want to consider using mail
merge events to change how the result is being processed.

Basically I have documents A,B,C...... with merge fields in them. They
all use the same data source because they use the same records but in
different areas of the documents.

So now the client wants to merge documents A and C but they want them
to be separate documents and not one document with these 2 documents
"inserted".

Is using the subdocument command the wrong command to use? Is there
not a way to say "Start each subdocument as a new document"


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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