Restarting Mail Merge

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What is the standard way to setup a mail merge to multiple recipients so that if
an interruption in printing occurs such as a paper jam, you can restart at that
point rather than starting all over?

Thanks!

Tom
 
I would build this feature into your nice prompt screen that launches word
and does the merge. Simply add an option to start at a given name (or
whatever you "order" the merge by.

Of course I never allow the word doc to actually attached to the mdb
datafile anyway, but *always* create temp csv file for word to use.

You can download my sample word merge. It would trivial to add a "start"
record to the code. Also, read the notes on how I was able to make the word
merge reliable and bullet proof.

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/msaccess.html
 
Tom said:
What is the standard way to setup a mail merge to multiple recipients so that if
an interruption in printing occurs such as a paper jam, you can restart at that
point rather than starting all over?

Thanks!

Tom
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My approach is to insert a Merge Sequence # field somewhere
unobtrusive on the document with as small a font as can be managed.
Then the printer operator can restart merging from Word at that record
when a jam occurs or the printer runs out of paper. With pin-feed
forms, I usually put this on the right tear-off strip, with laser
printers, I usually put it on the back side, lower right-hand corner.
Most of the work we do is for mail-outs, so only one copy is
generated. There's sometimes 15-20000 records per job, they have to
be broken up into manageable hunks and this is one way to do it.

Stan
 
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