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Old 02-08-2018, 08:55 AM
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Hello,

I have a mail merged document with hundreds of pages. Most of the letters are 3 pages long, but a few of them are 4 pages long. I want to print only the lead page of each letter on special letterhead.

What are some simple strategies for separating out the first pages of each letter, so that they may be printed on letterhead?

Re-doing the mail merge is not desirable, since the first pages were customized in many cases.

Thank you for your advice and please advice if more information is needed.
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You should have configured your mailmerge main document with a 'different first page' layout and with only that page directed to your printer's letterhead bin. You will now need to either:
• do that for each letter within the output document; or
• manually send each letter's first page to your printer's letterhead bin and the other pages to its normal paper bin.
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Thank you, Paul.

I really should have thought of this sooner.

Knowing that only the lead pages have the date on the top, is there any way to do either of the following?:

1. Print only pages with the date from the merged document.
2. Move only pages with the date to a brand new document, which would be printed entirely on letterhead.
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Neither of those approaches would be easy. A macro might be used to configure each Section with a 'different first page' layout, but the code for telling Word which page goes to what bin is printer specific and depends on what paper bins/feeds are attached to the printer and how those are configured at the printer. That is where the real challenge lies. Such a macro might be coded along the lines of:
Code:
Sub Demo()
Dim Sctn As Section
For Each Sctn In ActiveDocument.Sections
  With Sctn.PageSetup
    .DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter = True
    .FirstPageTray = wdPrinterUpperBin
    .OtherPagesTray = wdPrinterDefaultBin
    ' Depending on the printer configuration, you
    ' might need to swap the above bin definitions
    ' around or change them to any of:
    ' wdPrinterPaperCassette
    ' wdPrinterAutomaticSheetFeed
    ' wdPrinterLowerBin
    ' wdPrinterMiddleBin
    ' wdPrinterLargeCapacityBin
  End With
Next
End Sub
Note all the commented out alternative variables that might apply...

For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: https://wordmvp.com/Mac/InstallMacro.html
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I see - wow. I'm afraid macros are a bit out of my pay grade - at least in terms of what I could learn by tomorrow morning (deadline). Would your answer change if I added that there is only one printer involved - not one bin for letterhead and one bin for other sheets?
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The answer doesn't change, because I can't tell you what Word would recognise your printer bins as - that all depends on how your printer is configured. The only other option you've got is to manually print the first page of each section to the letterhead bin, which you'd do by inputting specs like:
p1s1, p1s2, p1s3, p1s4, p1s5 …
to get all the first pages, then manually print the other pages of each section to the non-letterhead bin, which you'd do by inputting specs like
p2-3s1, p2-3s2, p2-4s3, p2-3s4, p2-3s5 …
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Roger that. Going to see if I can make this happen.

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For anyone who comes across this problem in the future, I converted to PDF, since I could more readily manipulate the pages:

1. Convert document to PDF
2. In Adobe Acrobat, make sure that all letters are the same number of pages (if a few letters are shorter or longer, extract them into a separate document(s) for now.)
3. Use the Organize Pages tool in Adobe Acrobat
4. Zoom in/out until all of the first pages line up in one even column.
5. Click and drag to select all first pages.
6. Print selection

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