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Mail merging labels: labels not advancing per page
Melissa 10/28/2008 4:19:04 PM
I used the Merge Wizard to get my labels set up. Each page has 12 labels
which are showing up sequentially: Vendor A on the first label, Vendor B on
the second and so forth. However, when I scroll to the second page of labels,
it's starting the page with Vendor B from the merged spreadsheet instead of
the Vendor M. Each sheet starts with the following vendor from the first
label area on the sheet instead of the last.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Melissa
Re: Mail merging labels: labels not advancing per page
"Peter Jamieson" <pjj[ at ]KillmapSpjjnet.demon.co.uk> 10/28/2008 4:58:09 PM
That's what happens when you "preview" the merge. (In essence, Word just
previews the mail merge main document as if the first record to be merged is
the one you have currently selected).

To see the real output you either have to merge to a printer, or merge to a
new document which you can thn review, fix as necessary, and print as
appropriate.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Melissa" <Melissa[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2C69D443-EC31-48E0-B9C0-6A79173E886C[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
>I used the Merge Wizard to get my labels set up. Each page has 12 labels
> which are showing up sequentially: Vendor A on the first label, Vendor B
> on
> the second and so forth. However, when I scroll to the second page of
> labels,
> it's starting the page with Vendor B from the merged spreadsheet instead
> of
> the Vendor M. Each sheet starts with the following vendor from the first
> label area on the sheet instead of the last.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Melissa

Re: Mail merging labels: labels not advancing per page
Melissa 10/28/2008 5:12:08 PM
Thank you so much. I feel like a dope for missing that last step.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> That's what happens when you "preview" the merge. (In essence, Word just
> previews the mail merge main document as if the first record to be merged is
> the one you have currently selected).
>
> To see the real output you either have to merge to a printer, or merge to a
> new document which you can thn review, fix as necessary, and print as
> appropriate.
>
> --
> Peter Jamieson
> http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
>
> "Melissa" <Melissa[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2C69D443-EC31-48E0-B9C0-6A79173E886C[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >I used the Merge Wizard to get my labels set up. Each page has 12 labels
> > which are showing up sequentially: Vendor A on the first label, Vendor B
> > on
> > the second and so forth. However, when I scroll to the second page of
> > labels,
> > it's starting the page with Vendor B from the merged spreadsheet instead
> > of
> > the Vendor M. Each sheet starts with the following vendor from the first
> > label area on the sheet instead of the last.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Melissa
>
>

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