Mail merge blank pages

[Wayne Parent]

I have a 3 page document where I have page breaks set up at the beginning of each new page. I am merging data from excel to the 2nd page of the diocument. When I merge to a new document, it looks ok, but when I print it there is a blank 4th page that is added in. How do I get rid of the blank page?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?V2F5bmUgUGFyZW50?=,

I have a 3 page document where I have page breaks set up at the beginning of each new

page. I am merging data from excel to the 2nd page of the diocument. When I merge to a new
document, it looks ok, but when I print it there is a blank 4th page that is added in. How
do I get rid of the blank page?If you turn on the display of non-printing characters, then look at the end of the merge
document, do you see "empty lines"? That just have a ¶ symbol? Delete these, and that
should solve the problem.

If that's not it, what is at the end of the third page? And what do you see on the "blank"
fourth pages in the merge result?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?V2F5bmUgUGFyZW50?=,

On the 3rd page of the merge document I have deleted any extra lines and made sure

there was enough space at the bottom as to not flow over to a 4th page. When I "merge to
a new document", the blank page does not show up, but the pagination says differently. EX
of pagination: 1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10,11....etc. Also, all 3 pages have different headers and
footers. I have it set for different 1st page and different odd and even pages.Ah, the different odd/even pages is probably the explanation. If you turn on the
non-printing characters you should see the type of section break being used. I'll bet
it's "Odd page"? But in this case don't you want Page 1 to start on an odd page?

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

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