Ross Johnson wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
Ross Johnson wrote:
CarlP wrote:
Win XPHome, OOo 2.0.2
I am creating a mail merge to address envelopes. I create an
envelope document, select a data source, place merge fields on the
document, add Hidden Paragraphs as needed, then run the merge.
While the starting document and the resulting merged document show
one envelope "page" per record, the page number display skips every
other page (so when looking at first page, it shows page 1, but when
scrolling to the next visible envelope "page" it shows page 3).
Neither standard nor page layout views show the blank page. I've
checked for non-printing characters but all I see is paragraph markers.
What's going on, I think, is that the field names and Hidden
Paragraph functions take up so many lines that they spill onto a
second "page" when fields are viewed, even though none of the merged
addresses do. So every record (of some 220) takes up 2 "pages" even
though the merged data doesn't.
That's definitely not the case.
I have the same problem on Linux with OOo 2.0.3 with a regular
default page style mail merge, and I couldn't find the cause
anywhere. (I was saving all merged documents as a single document by
the way). In the end, I had to get around it by telling the print to
ignore automatic blank pages. There's a checkbox in File - Print -
Options(button) that needs to be unchecked.
Is this a bug, or is something else amiss? I've checked issue
tracker and not found anything like this. Haven't checked archives
as I'm on dialup.
It's gotta be a bug, surely.
As far as I understand it, it's by design: each merged document starts
on a new page 1. That does make sence for letters, less for envelopes.
But as Ross pointed out: there's an option added to suppress printing
the blanc pages.
I also get the feeling it's by design, but I think the implementation
may have got messed up somewhere. What I see is effectively two page
breaks between the individual merged documents. That is, each merged
document does start on a new page, but there is the blank page also. The
option to skip automatic blank pages when printing isn't the right
solution, and I don't believe would be the intended solution because if
I format my original document such that it includes automatic blank
pages, and I merge it, then those pages will also be removed
effectively, even though I want them to be there.
Ross
Right. And I don't think choosing to skip automatic blank pages is very
intuitive either. In any case, as I explained, I looked at the
non-printing characters and see no page breaks at all, much less two for
each record. I don't see anything that would indicate a "next record"
character either.
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