Main Document changes upon Print

[RWN]

wd2k/wd97/wd03
This isn't so much of a problem as a "huh".
Background;
I created a merge with wd97 that brings in an xl file as a source and
formatted the Main document so that five records print on one sheet
(these are pre-printed certificates).
The merge works just fine.

The problem (or, more correctly, the situation).
Using wd97;
During the process of aligning the text to the form I found that when I
"View Merge Data" and print, my display suddenly makes all five records
revert to the whatever record appears first and prints it that way. If I
then select another record the display reverts back to the proper result
(selected record is first followed by the 4 "Next Record"'s).
I noticed this after I'd done it a few times but was sure it hadn't been
doing it before (but, then again, I wasn't looking all that hard at the
output text, more at the alignment).
I get the same result with wd2k but wd03 works ok (displays/prints the
five records).

As I said, this is more of an annoyance as once I merge the output file
is fine.

Is my "old-timer's" acting up??

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Rwn,

I can't recall having ever seen (or had a report about) something exactly
like this. If this is happening with only the one main merge document, I'd
suspect there's a bit of damage in the internal file structures. I do
recall a customer once reporting an oddity in a main merge document I'd
edited in Word 2002 or 2003 and he was using in Word 97. Not the same
problem, but it sounds as if it could be related. Might be best to use two
different documents for Word 2002 and above vs. Word 200 and lower.

wd2k/wd97/wd03
This isn't so much of a problem as a "huh".
Background;
I created a merge with wd97 that brings in an xl file as a source and
formatted the Main document so that five records print on one sheet
(these are pre-printed certificates).
The merge works just fine.

The problem (or, more correctly, the situation).
Using wd97;
During the process of aligning the text to the form I found that when I
"View Merge Data" and print, my display suddenly makes all five records
revert to the whatever record appears first and prints it that way. If I
then select another record the display reverts back to the proper result
(selected record is first followed by the 4 "Next Record"'s).
I noticed this after I'd done it a few times but was sure it hadn't been
doing it before (but, then again, I wasn't looking all that hard at the
output text, more at the alignment).
I get the same result with wd2k but wd03 works ok (displays/prints the
five records).

As I said, this is more of an annoyance as once I merge the output file
is fine.

Is my "old-timer's" acting up??

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

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[RWN]

Thanks Cindy.
I sort of figured this was an anomaly when I didn't get a quick response
to the post.
As I mentioned, this isn't a big deal as the merge works just fine.

I'll wait for a snowbound weekend sometime and play with it some more.

Again, thanks.