Mail merge limits for print documents

[Dee]

I use mail merge to print mailers for customers (Outlook contacts /Word
Document). These are not emails, just going to the printer. The documents
have graphics and are double-sided. Whenever I try to print more than about
250 it just stops printing, no errors, it just stops. So I break up my data
source lists into smaller lists so I know I get them all printed. This is a
pain and I'd rather find what is stopping them all from printing. I don't
know if it's a Office limitation or hardware. I just got a new PC (64-bit/8
GB RAM/Windows 7), will that fix it? Any suggestions?

 

[Graham Mayor]

It's hard to say what the problem is here, but you may be able to overcome
it by merging to a new document and then use a macro to split the document
to the printer as a series of separate print jobs e.g.

Sub SplitMergeLetterToPrinter()
' splitter Macro
' Macro created 16-08-98 by Doug Robbins to print each letter created by a
' mailmerge as a separate file.
'
Letters = ActiveDocument.Sections.Count
Counter = 1
While Counter < Letters
ActiveDocument.PrintOut Background:=False, Range:=wdPrintFromTo, _
From:="s" & Format(Counter), To:="s" & Format(Counter)
Counter = Counter + 1
Wend
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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