Hi William,

1. Don't know if this is your question, but I use PrimoPDF (a free printer driver) to generate PDF's from *anything* that can print to a Windows queue. Small, quick install, and it does everything I've ever needed with generating PDF files from apps.

2a. If you only have Adobe Reader installed, you can automate a search for a page ONLY if 1) you know the page number or 2) you have "named destinations" encoded inside your PDF (similar to bookmarks -- the difference is that bookmarks are inside a single PDF, where named destinations can point to other documents/PDF's/locations/et al). I have some code that automates AR8 and searches for named destinations...let me know if that will assist you.

If you have the full version of Acrobat, it's a fully loaded Automation server, and I believe that you should be able to automate a text search fairly quickly -- check the Acrobat documentation and let us know if you can't find the way to do this.

2b. Rather than try to navigate the big PDF, can you generate a *second* PDF with just the individual letter? That might be quicker and easier...

HTH...

>Hi,
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>I have two questions.
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>1. I use Excel & Word MailMerge to print letters. I want to be able to generate PDF instead of actually printing the letters. So, how can I create a PDF from Word after I execute MailMerge? I can install the latest Word if that's needed for generating PDF (I believe the latest Word has this capability).
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>2. After I created a PDF with multiple (~500+) letters inside (Do you know, if there is a limitation on how many letters Word MailMerge can handle?) I want to be able to show (and print) individual letter (by Account Number) from my form using this generated big PDF. What are my options here?
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>Thanks.