Im automating a mail merge using Word. How can I keep it from putting a page break after each record?
Word offers four mail merge types: letter, envelope, label and catalog. Most people are familiar with the first three, which all put the data for one record on a separate “page.” (For an envelope or label, it’s not a page in the same sense as for a letter, but the key point is that each record is separated from those around it.) The catalog type is different. Each record corresponds to a line or group of lines, but there’s no break after the record. As the name suggests, it’s designed for things like catalogs where you want to list all the records together. We often use this type to create membership lists. The mail merge type is controlled by the MainDocumentType property of the MailMerge object. There are actually five possible values for this property: Constant Value wdNotAMergeDocument -1 wdFormLetters 0 wdMailingLabels 1 wdEnvelopes 2 wdCatalog 3 To create a mail merge catalog, set MainDocumentType to wdCatalog (3) and then perform the merge as usual. Finally, it’s worth noting th
