Problem Printing Page Ranges

[ninamorena]

OS: XP Pro SP2
MS Word 97

I have mail merged a document for a mass mailing in my office. I wanted
to print a certain page range (pages 31-200) and when I select the
option in the print menu to print that page range it does not print at
all. The printer connection is fine but it only does not print when I
select a specific page range to print in Word. I've tested this on
other machines with the same OS in Word 97 and we get the same results.
Does anyone have any tips?

 

[CyberTaz]

You've posted to the MacWord news group. You'll probably get better
respone on the Windows side:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...ft.public.word.mailmerge.fields&lang=en&cr=US

Good Luck |:>)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

When you mail merge a document, Word puts section breaks between each
version of the doc.

To print a portion of a doc with section breaks, you have to tell Word what
section (and what page, if necessary).

E.g., if you mail merged 50 versions, you can tell Word to print the last
two versions by putting s49-s50 in the page range box (for sections 49 and
50). Even if your page numbers are continuous across the sections, you have
to use the section and page numbers.

See the Help topic "Print specific pages and sections", which gives various
examples.

I'm guessing your doc doesn't have page numbers and you are using the ones
off the status bar. You'll notice that the status bar also shows the section
number.

By the way, I just noticed your version info. This is actually a MacWord
newsgroup, and you should probably post in a general Word group in the
future. But the answer for this question is the same. For general Word
groups, start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/wizard.mspx?lang=en&cr=US&ca
t=en-us-office&pt=3a4e9862-cdce-4bdc-8664-91038e3eb1e9