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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / September 2006Mail Merge Propagation
When I click "Update all labels" via the Mail Merge Wizard or manually click "Propogate Labels," only the first three cells and the last two cells actually propogate. Also, the little counter on the mail merge toolbar will not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help! Are you doing this on a tablet PC. If so, it is a problem that has cropped up before and has not been completely solved as yet. Fellow MVP Peter Jamieson has been very involved in some research into this and I received an email from him the other day that contained the following information "if you use the keyboard to select the Propagate Labels button in the Mail Merge Wizard, then use the spacebar to "click" the button, the function works correctly." Give that a try and post back with how you get on.  SignaturePlease respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP > When I click "Update all labels" via the Mail Merge Wizard or manually > click > "Propogate Labels," only the first three cells and the last two cells > actually propogate. Also, the little counter on the mail merge toolbar > will > not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help! Wow, bizarre. I do have a tablet PC. I should have posted earlier instead of wasting so much time trying to figure it out on my own! What a random bug! Your work around worked, although I was lucky enough to have someone here who knew to right-click on the wizard pane in order to be able to tab through the options and get to "Update Labels." Otherwise it just tabs through the cells in the document. Thanks Doug =) > Are you doing this on a tablet PC. If so, it is a problem that has cropped > up before and has not been completely solved as yet. Fellow MVP Peter [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > will > > not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help! Hi Tanya, Can you tell us what brand and model of tablet you are using. We are trying to get something done about this issue. SignaturePlease respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP > Wow, bizarre. I do have a tablet PC. I should have posted earlier > instead [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> > will >> > not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help! I also am using a tablet PC and am having the same problem generating labels. I do not know how to get into a wizard for the mail merge, I just use the icons to work my way through. I could not figure out how to use the keybosrd to "click" the propogate button using the spacebar. Please help! -Heather > Hi Tanya, > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >> > will > >> > not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help! > I could not figure out how to use the keybosrd > to "click" the propogate button using the spacebar. It isn't at all straightforward, but once you've remembered the steps it certainly isn't hard... a. If the Word "Task Pane" is not on display, use View|Task Pane to display it, then... b. if the "Mail Merge" task pane is not currently displayed, click the down-arrow (little black traingle pointing downwards) at teh top right of the task pane and select "Mail merge" from the drop-down list c. if step 4 of 6 is not showing in the task pane (it has "Arrange your Labels" at the top), click the "Next: (whatever)" or "Previous: (whatever)" links at the bottom of the task Pane until you get to step 4 of 6. d. Use the F10 key or Alt key (on its own) to activate the menu - you will probably see the "File" menu highlighted. e. Use ctrl-tab to move between the various menus, toolbars, task pane etc. When you have rached the task pane, the task pane header should be highlighted and you will probably see that one of the items in the pane is selcted (i.e. has a dotted box around it) f. use the Arrow keys to seelct the "Update all labels" button. g. Press the spacebar There's probably a much easier way but that will have to do for now. Peter Jamieson >I also am using a tablet PC and am having the same problem generating >labels. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> >> > will >> >> > not go to anything before 8 (of 14). Help!
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