Hi Chestore,

The process I've given you has nothing to do with mailmerge - it's completely independent and, hence, much simpler. If you want to be able to specify the starting # for a block of tickets:
• select the first Ticket # field and press Shift-F9. You should see '{SEQ Ticket \# 00000}'
• after the word 'Ticket' insert another field via Ctrl-F9, so that you get '{SEQ Ticket { } \# 00000}'
• now edit the field contents so that you end up with '{ SEQ Ticket \r {FILLIN "Starting #?" \d 1 }\# 00000 }' (note the ' \r ' after 'Ticket'.
• Press Ctr-A, then F9 and input the starting Ticket #.
If your document has, say 1,000 tickets, then inserting a starting # of 15001 will update the ticket #s for the 15001-16000 range.

Any time you want to produce another batch, open the document, press Ctr-A, then F9 and input the starting Ticket #. Simple. Alternatively, if you have Word configured to update fields at print time, just print the document. When you do so, you'll be prompted for the starting # and Word will take care of the rest.

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Paul Edstein
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