Merging to a single print job (2003)

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Greetings:

I’m running a mail merge in Publisher 2003 using an excel spreadsheet of about 500 records as the data file. For some reason, publisher insists on sending 50 jobs of 10 records each to the printer. Does anyone know why it wants to do this, and how to tell it not to. The reason it’s becoming a problem is that I’d like to print the records in reverse order, and since it insists on sending the data in batches of 10, I end up with 10 to 1, then 20 to 11 and so on.

AdThanksVance,

Murad

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See The Registry Fix for changing the Mail Merge Batch Size. For your situation, you’d want to set the value of NumberOfRecordsPerBatch to 1000 or so, so that all records are printed in a single batch.

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Hans:

Thank you very much.

I turned my data file up side down, and let publisher do it the way it wanted to, so I have not tried what you suggest at this time. Will let the group know if it does not work.

Once again thank you very much for the prompt response.

Murad

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Hans:

The article references a setting of 0 (zero) to mean all records .I tried that, and it did not seem to work. So I set the registry key to a value large enough for me, and it work very nicely.

Once again, thanks

Murad

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