Mail merge labels in Word seems to ramdomly omit records

[Howard Holmes]

When I print labels using mail merge in Word (2003) Word omits labels in my
list.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Do you have a NEXT field in the first cell? Remove it! - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

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[Ryan Holmes]

I work with Howard (who wrote the original message). I believe we have
followed all the steps exactly as in your article. The "NEXT field" is in
all labels except the first. It seems that the first 2 or 3 hundred labels
merge okay and then it starts doing three, then skipping three, then after a
few hundred more it starts merging three and skipping 6 up until the end. We
have had this problem happen numerous times now. Does word only merge a
certain number of labels. It seems to cut off at 27 pages. However, when I
tried cutting our data source spreadsheet in half and doing one at a time, it
still skipped entries the same way.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Are you merging directly to the printer? If so switch off background
printing for the duration.
Alternatively merge to a new document. Does that produce all the data?

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[Ryan Holmes]

It actually did produce all of the labels when I merged to a new document
instead of merging to the printer. Thank you so much!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Don't thank me until you print the new document. There may still be some
holdup in the background print spooling.

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