Catalog Merge Document?

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Vincent - 28 Oct 2006 03:31 GMT

We have written a small program to perform merges between a database
and Microsoft Word merge documents that our customers create.
Recently, one of our customers was trying to perform a merge, but it
kept failing. I traced the problem to the type of Word document.
Apparently, you cannot merge a catalog merge document directly to a
printer. It must be merged to a new document. My question is, what
exactly is a catalog merge document? I could discern no difference
between it and a regular merge document. Is there a way to make a
catalog merge document not be a catalog merge document? Thanks for
your help.

-Vincent

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 28 Oct 2006 08:25 GMT

You can change it to a form letter type mail merge main document by using
the first button on the mail merge toolbar (View>Toolbars>Mail Merge)

I guess as you are talking about catalog, rather than directory, you are
using a version of Word before XP so the type of mail merge main document
can be selected/changed in section 1 of the Mail Merge Helper dialog.

A catalog type document allows you to have the data for each record appear
on the same page (until the page is full) rather than having a next page
section break inserted between each set of data as in the case of a form
letter type mailmerge

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> We have written a small program to perform merges between a database
> and Microsoft Word merge documents that our customers create.
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>
> -Vincent

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Lüko Willms - 28 Oct 2006 09:45 GMT

Am Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:25:58 UTC, schrieb "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
<dkr@REMOVECAPSmvps.org> auf microsoft.public.word.vba.general :

> You can change it to a form letter type mail merge main document by using
> the first button on the mail merge toolbar (View>Toolbars>Mail Merge)

or programmatically by assigning

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters

instead of

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdCatalog

or

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdNotAMergeDocument

Yours,
L.W.

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