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nigel - 04 May 2004 13:22 GMT

Hi

I am currently having a problem printing a merged
document into separate printer trays. The document uses
section breaks and wondered if this is a known problem,
or there is a solution.

I am currently using Word 2000 and have a 12 page
document with 4 section breaks. (Within each section
there are 3 pages). I am trying to print the first page
of each section to one paper tray and the remaining 2 of
each sectionto another tray.

So far I have set the printer properties to print from
different trays and also set the Paper Source within File

| Page setup. However, all the pages still print to one

tray.

Is there a known problem with section breaks and printer
trays or does this look like a printer issue.

Ta

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 05 May 2004 08:40 GMT

Hi Nigel,

If I'm following your problem description correctly, this is
a "logic problem". If you set Section 1 to a particular
tray, then Sections 3 through 4 to another one, do a
merge...

Sections 5 and onwards will probably take either the one
tray or the other. The document is not going to inherit 1:3
for the trays, but is going to propagate only the one
setting to the rest of the sections.

What you probably need is a macro to run on the merge result
document to set the tray individually for each section.

> I am currently having a problem printing a merged
> document into separate printer trays. The document uses
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> Is there a known problem with section breaks and printer
> trays or does this look like a printer issue.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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