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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2007Large Merge File Chokes
Hi all, I have a large merge file that is built through an automated process in MS Access XP. I am uisng Word XP. There is an average of about 4000 records that are merged. This has worked fine for the last 2 years, but this year the director gave us an edited copy of the Word document. Now the print job chokes after about 150 records. I copied and pasted the changes into the original document and everything seemed to be going good. The print job got up to about 1000 records and choked again. Now it is back to only printing about 150 at a time. There has not been any changes in hardware or software (except that they moved to new print servers). Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, NickX 1. Are you merging directly to the printer, or merging to an output document first? 2. Are you able to change the print destination, or merge to an output document, for testing purposes? 3. Does it still work OK with the original Mail Merge Main Document? 4. If you can merge to an output document, I suggest you try merging a number of records (say 100) using the original Mail Merge Main Document, then using the new Mail Merge Main Document, and see if there is any substantial difference in file size in the output. 5. What kind of changes are you making to the Mail Merge Main Document? (I don't think anyone here is likely to know /exactly/ what causes slowdowns, but for example, using formatted bullets used to slow Merges to a crawl). Peter Jamieson > Hi all, > I have a large merge file that is built through an automated process in MS [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks, > NickX Peter, > 1. Are you merging directly to the printer, or merging to an output document > first? -my merge goes from Access into a Word merge document > 2. Are you able to change the print destination, or merge to an output > document, for testing purposes? -we tried several different printers and got the same results on all > 3. Does it still work OK with the original Mail Merge Main Document? -it seemed to work, I copied and pasted the changes into the original document and it printed fine for about the first 1000 records > 4. If you can merge to an output document, I suggest you try merging a > number of records (say 100) using the original Mail Merge Main Document, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > don't think anyone here is likely to know /exactly/ what causes slowdowns, > but for example, using formatted bullets used to slow Merges to a crawl). -the only changes that were made were text, no formatting was changed and no fields were changed. Do you think it could be that the data needs reconnected somehow? Thanks, NickX > > but for example, using formatted bullets used to slow Merges to a > > crawl). > -the only changes that were made were text, no formatting was changed and > no > fields were changed. That is curious. I wonder if change tracking is switched on? If so, make sure you accept all the changes in the document and switch it off. That's my best guess for the moment. > Do you think it could be that the data needs reconnected somehow? Since I don't know what the cause is, I can't rule anything out, but that wouldn't be my first thought if nothing has changed in that area. Peter Jamieson > Peter, >> 1. Are you merging directly to the printer, or merging to an output [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Thanks, > NickX
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