Dear all, can anybody help with the following issue?

I have a mail merge function that takes data from an Access file and put them in a 2-column table.
This table has several tens (up to some hundreds) of lines, but is very narrow (maximum width not exceeding 20 mm).
I would like to:

1) automatically split the table at the end of each page, avoiding splitting of cells, which I suppose should be easy.

2) automatically arrange horizontally the chunks of the original table so that they will use all the space of each page. That is: each of my A4 pages should contain up to 5 pieces of the original table arranged each aside the other (with an empty space between them).
The results should be similar that I would have writing a plaint text in a word document with columns.


Cells are meant to be printed and cut out as labels.

Thanks for any suggestion

Is there a reason you can't just give the mailmerge main document a multi-column page layout?

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Actually there isn't, but it is not going to work.

In the same way, the table I get from mail merge doesn't split automatically respecting pages, as usually happens when you normally add rows to a table in a ordinary word document.
Also, the original table is not going to respect page margins.
When the table is too high (too many rows) for the page, the upper border of the table shift up until it aligns perfectly (no spacing) with the edge of the page. At the bottom of the page, tens of exceeding rows will "disappear" out of my page, until some of them will appear in a second page, with alignment as in the first page and several rows not visible between page 1 and 2.

See attachment

Attached Files

test page.docx (14.4 KB, 12 views)

The only reason it doesn't work properly with your attachment is that you've set the table's wrap format to 'around'.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

OUCH!



Thanks a lot