Using mail merge to generate tables without page breaks

[Gail Gurman]

I have an Excel spreadsheet, and I need to convert each line into a formatted
table in Word. I've been using mail merge to do this, and the tables generate
perfectly, but each is followed by a page break. I don't want anything
between the tables other than a paragraph break, but I can't figure out how
to get rid of the page breaks (other than manually deleting each one, which
is not practical because there are 360 tables).

Any advice?

 

[macropod]

Hi Gail,

You can replace all the section breaks via Find/Replace.

In the Find box, input: ^b
Leave the Replace box empty or, if you need to replace the section break with an empty paragraph, insert: ^p

Cheers

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Change the main document type to a catalog or in Word XP and later it is
called directory type and make sure that after the table in the document you
have two (2) paragraph breaks ¶ and nothing else.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP