Mary
Thu Apr 13 02:42:02 CDT 2006
Help from Ed Bennett, MVP
Adjust the Mail Merge Batch Size.
There is a way you can set the number of records per batch using the
Registry (fix courtesy of KATMA)
Open registry using regedit.exe
Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<Pub Version>.0
\Publisher\Printing
Create new "string value" called:
NumberOfRecordsPerBatch
Double click and set a value for your batch size.
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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
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"MyPrinterLady" <MyPrinterLady@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B356ACCE-9843-4446-A643-DB71AFE917C4@microsoft.com...
> Using Publisher 2000 and mail merge - large input excel files - sort sequence
> is crucial but does not hold. Doing a 20K pice mailing and addresses print
> out in basically no sequence at all - I've broken database down to 2000 names
> at a time - it will print 10 in sequence, skip 20, print 10 in sequence, skip
> 10 then eventually goes back and randomly picks up skipped addresses. I know
> the file is sorted going in. With mailings this big, this is a MAJOR problem.
> Anyone know what's happening here. How to solve?