Mail Merged Document Print Issue

[Henry LaMuth]

I have word 2K running under WinXPHome...everything has the latest
updates. HP1100a with latest drivers. The print range for selected
pages doesn't work....1-10 or 5-24 etc will not print. It doesn't
recognize that anything has been put in. Use to work, but maybe not on
a merged document. I don't remember...but I have used it successfully
for years. One page at a time or all the pages print OK.

The printing also seems to be getting touchy...hangs or stops
printing, then produces a partial page and then another partial
page...needs to have print button pushed to print it. It acts like the
memory is periodically getting lost...it never had a lot, only 2Meg in
the printer.

I have de-installed and re-installed. Works on some things very well.
Scanner works OK. But the printing problem with merged document seems
like it is stalling before printing, again, like a memory problem.
Maybe I lost part of the memory, but I don't know how to check
that...maybe the test page but haven't looked.

The issue of not printing a range is a pain. Any ideas why it is
happening now and doesn't seemed to be fixed by re-installing drivers,
etc.

Thanks for any help.

Henry LaMuth

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Henry,

The "pages" of a document produced by mailmerge are actually Sections. It
is therefore necessary to specify the Section Number (s1, s2, s5 - s8) etc.

If there are multiple pages in each Section, then you specify them using
p#s#, with the individual ones separated by commas or a range of them
separated by a hyphen.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Henry LaMuth]

I never knew that. Well, I will give it a try. I find it hard to
believe I never tried to do a merge print for selected pages before,
but maybe not.

Thanx for the insight.

Henry