Help! Soft page breaks being inserted into merged document

[Jonathan Goldman]

I have a mailmerge document with approximately 100 fields, connected
to an Access multi-table query. In the merged document, Word is
breaking pages in seemingly random locations in a specific field.
This happens with only a small percentage of records. The field is a
Memo field, and runs to a few paragraphs.

I tried assigning a paragraph style to the field, and checking the
checkbox for the paragraph style's Keep Lines Together setting.
Instead of some of the pages for the record having only one or two
lines, they have a whole paragraph.

Both Word and Access are from Office 2000.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Jonathan,

Hmmmm. Can you determine anything these records have in common? Number
of paragraphs or words, for example?

The other Word setting to check, in the same place as "Keep Line
Together", is "Keep with Next". And not just for this field/paragraph,
but for the ones just before and after. Make sure it's OFF for all and
see if that makes any difference.

I have a mailmerge document with approximately 100 fields, connected
to an Access multi-table query. In the merged document, Word is
breaking pages in seemingly random locations in a specific field.
This happens with only a small percentage of records. The field is a
Memo field, and runs to a few paragraphs.

I tried assigning a paragraph style to the field, and checking the
checkbox for the paragraph style's Keep Lines Together setting.
Instead of some of the pages for the record having only one or two
lines, they have a whole paragraph.

Both Word and Access are from Office 2000.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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