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Redwine - 31 Jan 2007 19:53 GMT

On the list of names and addresses I have created and stored all of the data
appears correctly on the screen. However when printed some header titles
appear along with a watermark design and a footer design. This ruins several
of the mail labels on the page. How do I eliminate this unwanted material
while keeping the material I want

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Redwine

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Peter Jamieson - 31 Jan 2007 21:36 GMT

> However when printed some header titles
> appear along with a watermark design and a footer design.

Can you describe what "some" means? I mean, does this appear on some pages,
every other page, part of some pages or what?

If you are seeing a watermark in the main body of a document, the chances
are that that watermark has been inserted (at some time) into one of your
headers/footers and saved, either accidentally or deliberately, into a
template (Normal, or a template you're using for your mail merge main
document). Have a look around! Just bear in mind that Word has around 6
different header/footer areas for 1st page in a section, subsequent pages,
odd/even pages and so on.

Peter Jamieson

> On the list of names and addresses I have created and stored all of the
> data
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> of the mail labels on the page. How do I eliminate this unwanted material
> while keeping the material I want

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Redwine - 31 Jan 2007 22:44 GMT

Thanks Peter,
This is a short mailing list only 1 page. The material that is part of the
header has some of the titles used in making template such as last name,
first name, position, company, etc which I saw in making my list for the
template. The other part has a dotted line extending down about an inch from
the top of the page to a shaded line running across the top of the page,
further down in the middle of the page on the left hand side is a stylized
globe, and at the bottom is a shaded line running half way across the bottom
of the page with a dotted line running the remainder of the way across.
I know where the the titles came from but not how they got there. The other
I haven't a clue.

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Thanks,
Redwine

> > However when printed some header titles
> > appear along with a watermark design and a footer design.
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> > of the mail labels on the page. How do I eliminate this unwanted material
> > while keeping the material I want

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Peter Jamieson - 31 Jan 2007 23:08 GMT

Have you checked what's set up in Word Format|Background|Printed Watermark?

Peter Jamieson

> Thanks Peter,
> This is a short mailing list only 1 page. The material that is part of the
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>> > material
>> > while keeping the material I want

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Feb 2007 06:50 GMT

Sounds like you might have headers and footers set up in your normal.dot
template. Try renaming it to Normal.old and then restart Word and try the
merge again.

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> Thanks Peter,
> This is a short mailing list only 1 page. The material that is part of the
[quoted text clipped - 37 lines]
>> > material
>> > while keeping the material I want

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