I have used Word 2002 and the merge feature to create a
quarterly update that we send out to our clients. We
send a different number of copies to each client.
For example, ABC Company might need 5 copies and XYZ
company might need 10. Is there any way to do this other
than doing each print job individually?
One possibility is to set up a data source list that
contains the company names as many times as you need
copies. If, for example, you use an Excel table and have a
column in the table for the number of copies, a macro could
create a new table with the data row that number of times.
Mail merge would link to this new table.
Another approach would be to merge to a new document, then
use a macro that picks up the number of copies from the
data source, then prints each section individually,
specifying the number of copies.
In Word 2002/2003 you also have the possibility of using
the mail merge EVENTs (macro programming required) to
create the number of copies you need, as the merge is
processing.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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