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Old 12-21-2018, 07:57 AM
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I have 15 to 20 individual Word Documents that contain over 500 documents that need to be converted to individual PDF files. These documents go to the employees for their annual Stock grants.

I have already linked Word to my Excel file and created all the individual documents. I am now ready to print them to a individual PDF files.

One file may contain 130 individual documents. Each separate word document is dependent upon the number of stocks they are granted (e.g. 1,2,3,4,etc).

One merged Word document may contain 150 separated documents (these are for folks who are granted 1 fund) or 1 document (13 granted stocks).

The idea was to use a DocuSign tool that will split the merged Word document into individual PDF documents. How, we need to create a unique identifier to let the tool tool know when a new document ends or a new one begins.

Is there a macro or add in tool that will print the existing mail merged word documents into a PDF?



I don't need to create the links - this is already done. I am ready to print the files.

I now just need to convert the completed mail merge file to individual PDFs.

If I had all he email addresses could I also automatically create emails for them or would I have to do it individually?

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Old 12-21-2018, 03:32 PM
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See Send Mailmerge Output to Individual Files in the Mailmerge Tips and Tricks 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html
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Old 12-21-2018, 03:50 PM
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thank you for the tips. I"ll definitely study this over the holidays.

Of the several codes you have available there which one would apply to my situation where I have the word document already merged and ready to print but I want to print them to individual PDF files.

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Old 12-21-2018, 05:02 PM
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For an existing mailmerge output document, you'd use the approach described under Split Merged Output to Separate Documents.
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Old 12-21-2018, 05:30 PM
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I ran this following code but nothing happened. I did get a message box "How many Section breaks are there per record?"

Each employee's document consists of 35 pages. Is this a section break or is this total number of employees I have records for in the document.
Code:
Sub SplitMergedDocument()
' Sourced from: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, StrTxt As String
Dim Rng As Range, Doc As Document, HdFt As HeaderFooter
Const StrNoChr As String = """*./\:?|"
j = InputBox("How many Section breaks are there per record?", "Split By Sections", 1)
With ActiveDocument
   ' Process each Section
  For i = 1 To .Sections.Count - 1 Step j
    With .Sections(i)
       '*****
       ' Get the 1st paragraph
      Set Rng = .Range.Paragraphs(1).Range
      With Rng
        ' Contract the range to exclude the final paragraph break
        .MoveEnd wdCharacter, -1
        StrTxt = .Text
        For k = 1 To Len(StrNoChr)
          StrTxt = Replace(StrTxt, Mid(StrNoChr, k, 1), "_")
        Next
      End With
       ' Construct the destination file path & name
      StrTxt = ActiveDocument.Path & Application.PathSeparator & StrTxt
       '*****
       ' Get the whole Section
      Set Rng = .Range
      With Rng
        If j > 1 Then .MoveEnd wdSection, j - 1
         'Contract the range to exclude the Section break
        .MoveEnd wdCharacter, -1
         ' Copy the range
        .Copy
      End With
    End With
     ' Create the output document
    Set Doc = Documents.Add(Template:=ActiveDocument.AttachedTemplate.FullName, Visible:=False)
    With Doc
       ' Paste contents into the output document, preserving the formatting
      .Range.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatOriginalFormatting)
       ' Delete trailing paragraph breaks & page breaks at the end
      While .Characters.Last.Previous = vbCr Or .Characters.Last.Previous = Chr(12)
        .Characters.Last.Previous = vbNullString
      Wend
       ' Replicate the headers & footers
      For Each HdFt In Rng.Sections(j).Headers
        .Sections(j).Headers(HdFt.Index).Range.FormattedText = HdFt.Range.FormattedText
      Next
      For Each HdFt In Rng.Sections(j).Footers
        .Sections(j).Footers(HdFt.Index).Range.FormattedText = HdFt.Range.FormattedText
      Next
       ' Save & close the output document
      .SaveAs FileName:=StrTxt & ".docx", FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument, AddToRecentFiles:=False
       ' and/or:
      .SaveAs FileName:=StrTxt & ".pdf", FileFormat:=wdFormatPDF, AddToRecentFiles:=False
      .Close SaveChanges:=False
    End With
  Next
End With
Set Rng = Nothing: Set Doc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Where do I specify where to say the document?

Thank you for your help,

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Old 12-21-2018, 05:31 PM
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Clarification: Is the 35 pages considered the Section break or does that message refer to the number of people that are contained in the merged file? Not sure, thank you
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Old 12-21-2018, 05:52 PM
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The prompt regarding Sections is because the mailmerge main document from which the output records are generated may itself have contained Section breaks (e.g. where some pages are in portrait format, whilst others are in landscape format). Each record will consist of at least one Section - you need to tell Word how many Sections each record has, not how many records or pages per record there are.

As the comments relating to that topic say:
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As coded, it is assumed the output filename consists of the first paragraph in each record.
If you're getting 0 output, that suggests your mailmerge main document starts with an empty paragraph - and so do each of the output records - in which case you need to change the '1' in:
Set Rng = .Range.Paragraphs(1).Range
to point to the paragraph that is to be used for the filenames - or you can use the numbered file approach outlined in the topic's comments.
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I'm attaching a file with the header for one of them.

thank you for all your help on this. It is going to save us a lot of time if I can get this to work properly.

Michael

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Your attachment is just a screenshot, not a document. I'd need a document for this and you'd have to say what part is supposed to be used for the filename.
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Understood. However, I won't be able to get back to office until Jan 2 and i would like to be able to run it so I can convert the files to PDF then.

In the screensheet, the name file doesn't start until line 5 (two lines below "award").

How would I amend your code to have it look at the "Name of Participant" line for the name of the new PDF?

Do you need an entire document because i could probably make one from scratch but I wouldn't be able to provide the other 34 pages in the document.

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It might help to look at
http://www.gmayor.com/MergeAndSplit.htm
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Old 12-22-2018, 09:54 PM
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How would I amend your code to have it look at the "Name of Participant" line for the name of the new PDF?
For that, you'd need to change:
Set Rng = .Range.Paragraphs(1).Range
to, say:
Set Rng = .Range.Paragraphs(5).Range
and change:
StrTxt = .Text
to:
StrTxt = Split(.Text,":" & vbTab)(1)
but, as I said, I'd need to see an actual document to be sure.
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Do you need an entire document because i could probably make one from scratch but I wouldn't be able to provide the other 34 pages in the document.
A single page containing everything down to at least the "Name of Participant" line in your screenshot would do.
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Thank you Peter.

So the Range. Paragraph object referred to in the code refers to a line on the document (line the row object in Excel). Since the Employee name is on line 5 I'll modify the code from (1) to (5) per your suggestion.

How does the code know to create a new PDF for each employee (just curious).

I'll create a dummy couple of pages and send this to you later today or tomorrow. Thank you for your help on this, you're a life saver!

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Thank you Peter.
Peter???
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So the Range. Paragraph object referred to in the code refers to a line on the document (line the row object in Excel).
No, it actually refers to a paragraph. It's impossible to tell from your screenshot what paragraph # the desired content is in. For all I know at this stage, all the heading content is just one paragraph and the desired content is in paragraph 2.
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How does the code know to create a new PDF for each employee (just curious).
It puts that part into the StrTxt variable, then uses that variable's content for the filename in the SaveAs code.
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Sorry Paul, I meant to write Paul, not Peter.

The header is the first paragraph, their isn't a blank line until the 4th row. The second paragraph starts with Participant ...

I'll create a document for you following the format I recall. I'll also create a dummy second sheet so it will print more than one.

Thank you,

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