I am using Word Mail Merge in Office 2010 to produce a report from an Excel Source. The source spreadsheet contains a list of pieces of music with columns for Composer, Work and Performer plus other stuff.



I print Composer as a heading and then list all works by that composer. This works fine but I would like to repeat the composer at the top of a page when the entries for one composer run over to another page. I do not want to start each composer on a new page but display something like 'Beethoven (Continued)' at the top of a page when necessary.

I'm happy with the conditional statement I need to set up but how do I detect new page? The only variable that I have found is {Page} which I thought I could monitor but it does not seem to get updated. If I print {Page} with each record as a test it always shows '2'. I have a front page which gets printed when MERGESEQ = 1 so I guess that is why {Page} starts at two but why doesn't it increment?)

Any ideas how I can check for new page?

Thanks
Tim

Consider adding page break before formatting to your composer heading. Then use a StyleRef field in a header to display this at the top of the page.

Thanks, Charles but I don't think that will do what I want. I don't want to always start each composer on a new page, I just want to put in a reminder header when the entries for one composer roll over to a new page.

Hi Tim, Did you find a solution to this problem ?

Cheers

Hi moemax

No I did not find a solution to this problem although I still keep trying things, nothing seems to work.

Regards
Tim

Thanks for your quick response ....

The StyleRef field will do as the OP wants, though not with the '(Continued)' annotation. Simply apply a specific Style to the mergefield containing the composer name, and insert a StyleRef field referencing that Style into the header.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]