Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the link, I might use something like that to help the users pick trays. My real issue is getting my understanding of document construction down enough to know exactly how/when to insert section breaks in such a way as to create a large document that prints on letterhead when it's supposed to and regular paper when it's supposed to.

I'm close, I just need to nail down a few things. I do a LOT of document construction but I haven't really mastered the Word object model.

Gary

>>Hi all,
>>I’m interested in suggestions on how to handle a mail merge project. I will be generating documents that have a boiler plate letter on letterhead stock of one or two pages (duplex on one sheet, if two) with a merged document attached of one to two pages depending on the data on white stock also duplexed if needed. I'm pretty sure I have this figured out for individual document creation.
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>>What I’m exploring is how or whether to create this as a merge to a single document for ease of review, printing and archiving. That will ultimately depend on user requirements, but what I don’t know how to do is build a document that will print some pages from one tray and others from another tray for a large merge-to-document operation.
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>>Is it possible to partition a document, perhaps using sections, so that multiple letters with defined margins, first page source, other page source, duplex, etc., can co-exist in one document? I've built a number of this type of document in the past., but couldn't figure out how to have it get paper from defined bins throughout the print process.
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>>Even if this can be done, it might not be the best way to go for user work flow with print runs several hundred documents at a time, but I’d love to know how to do this technically anyway.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Gary
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>See if this will help get you started:
>*Courtesy of Simon Clark, Universal Thread, July 2003
>Re: Using paper trays Message #1165827