Condition Statement

[Cassy]

I have a mail merge document where I want certain letters with a fiel
associated with it to print to a tray 1 and the other letters to wit
another merge field to print to tray 2. How do I set my condition u
to do this when all the letters are in one document when it merges?
For example I have a 50 page document and I want pages 5, 10, 15 tha
has one merge field on it to go to tray 1 and pages 1,3,7,35,23,40an
50 to go to tray 2 based on the merge field and all other to go to tra
3. These pages can be different based on the data source each time i
is merged

 

[Graham Mayor]

I don't think you will be able to do this using fields.

However, if your printer is an HP compatible laserjet you may be able to
send PRINT commands via a conditional field to switch the trays. I am not,
however, confident that it will work as part of the merge and I don't have
the printer available here to test it.

Also the actual commands vary between printers which is particularly
unhelpful, but if you can locate the bin escape sequences in your printer
handbook, something along the lines of the following - placed at the top of
the page - is worth a try

{IF {Mergefield Fieldname} = result1 "{PRINT 27"&l1H "}" "{IF {Mergefield
Fieldname} = result2 "{PRINT 27"&l2H "}" "{PRINT 27"&l3H "}"}

See also fellow MVP Jonathan West's excellent article on controlling
printers from vba -
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=101

You could also split the merge document into separate letters if that would
be useful - http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm



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