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Old August 25th, 2004, 07:32 AM
Paul
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Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote in message news:VA.00009de2.0105d665@speedy...
Hi Paul,

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"