A mail merge document has only one page but as many sections as records.
When printing groups of 'pages' you should address them by section numbers
eg s10-s30
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CDSTECH wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I have been using Word 2003 to do large mail merges for years and
> never experienced a problem like I am having with 2007.
>
> Large equals about 1800 to 3000 page mail merge documents.
>
> I have recently just completed a mail merge using external data from
> an
> Excel spreadsheet which resulted in a 2665 page mail merge document
> when completed.
>
> I tried to print these and only the first 1000 or so pages would
> print. I can go and do print and select 1, 20, 50, 100 pages but it
> will not print.
> It pops up the dialog and acts as though it is sending the print job,
> but it always says printing 0 pages. If I do a print preview on one
> page, and then select print from the print preview the page WILL
> PRINT.
>
> I have tried to disable background printing in word. This has no
> effect.
> I have tried to disable all advanced features on my printer (HP
> LJ4350) and in the print driver.
>
> If I save the document as a PDF and then print from adobe it prints
> just fine.
>
> SYSTEM SPECS:
> DELL OPTIPLEX 740 - Win XP Pro SP2
> 2 GB RAM
> 250 GB Hard Drive (220+ GB Free)
> AMD ATHLON X2 5800
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated..
> Different View points---very appreciated...
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