mail merges only 127 records out of 253, why?

[Bob]

I have an Excel spreadsheet file with 253 rows of data. I
setup a one page mail merge Word document with a "new
record" field at the bottom of the page. I can open the
data source with no problems and insert the merge fields
in the document. The mail merge wizard even shows 253
records to be merged. But when I run the merge it always
ends up with only 127 pages in the output document. The
merge seems to skip every other record. What is going on?

 

[Bob]

Duh! It was because I included the "new record" command
in the Word Document. It was basically doing two records
for every document because of that. Sorry, It's been a
bad day. Problem solved.