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Nan Hauser - 01 Apr 2005 16:31 GMT

I have generated delivery letters using mail merge from an Access query for
several years. Since converting to Office 2003, when I click the "Merge to
new document" button, the header and footer of the letter are missing in the
new document. When I do a print preview, the header and footer are there;
however, I have to email these letters, so I need the header and footer in
the new document.

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Charles Kenyon - 01 Apr 2005 17:56 GMT

Email doesn't use headers and footers because it doesn't use pages. Email as
an attachment if you want the header and footer.

Not seeing them in print view is related to the white space setting. See
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/WhiteSpace.htm.

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>I have generated delivery letters using mail merge from an Access query for
> several years. Since converting to Office 2003, when I click the "Merge
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> however, I have to email these letters, so I need the header and footer in
> the new document.

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Nan Hauser - 01 Apr 2005 19:17 GMT

Actually, I was trying to get the header and footer into a new Word document,
not an email message. I could see the header and footer in the print
preview, but I couldn't see them in the Word document. I changed the white
space option and this corrected the problem. Thanks!

> Email doesn't use headers and footers because it doesn't use pages. Email as
> an attachment if you want the header and footer.
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> > however, I have to email these letters, so I need the header and footer in
> > the new document.

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Art - 28 Jun 2005 16:41 GMT

Were you ever able to solve this problem? I am having the same issue.

> Actually, I was trying to get the header and footer into a new Word document,
> not an email message. I could see the header and footer in the print
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> > > however, I have to email these letters, so I need the header and footer in
> > > the new document.

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Charles Kenyon - 28 Jun 2005 16:50 GMT

Did you read through the solution provided below and try it?

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> Were you ever able to solve this problem? I am having the same issue.
>
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>> > > footer in
>> > > the new document.

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