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Damon - 08 Jun 2004 14:33 GMT

Hi,

I wrote a class merge about two years ago which was working with office 97
to merge data from a recordset onto a word document. When I am using this
in WOrd 2000 I have noticed that the size of the document being orinted goes
from 287kb up to 1.87 MB, this is very strange as I am only merging five
fields into my word document and they are text fields. Any ideas why the
document is becoming so large? Would appreciate the help.

Thanks

Damon

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 09 Jun 2004 16:09 GMT

Hi Damon,

> I wrote a class merge about two years ago which was working with office 97
> to merge data from a recordset onto a word document. When I am using this
> in WOrd 2000 I have noticed that the size of the document being orinted goes
> from 287kb up to 1.87 MB, this is very strange as I am only merging five
> fields into my word document and they are text fields. Any ideas why the
> document is becoming so large?

This sounds as if you're not using the traditional mail merge, but doing
everything via automation? Does the document contain any graphics? How about
numbering? Anything besides "just text"?

My first thought is some document corruption.
- rename Normal.dot to NormalOLD.dot
- start Word
- open the document
- copy everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark
- open a new document
- paste, save and use this with your code

is the file size more... reasonable?

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

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