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Word 07, Save each page in a document as a seperate document

by rotteneggz Oct 15, 2007 4:05AM PDT

Hello,
I used mail merger to create 25 letters to different locations and different people. The source used for the names and address's were from an excel file. I used "Edit Individual Documents" in order to get all the letters in one document. Now the problem is i need a backup of each letter on my computer and i have no clue if its even possible to save each page in the master document as a unique document. If not, is there a way of saving each unique document of a mail merger?
Thanks in advance.

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Copy/paste each page into a new document ...

by Kees Bakker Oct 15, 2007 5:25AM PDT

and save that. For 25 pages that's 10 to 15 minutes work. Writing and testing a macro takes more time.

Kees

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Also ...

by Kees Bakker Oct 15, 2007 5:27AM PDT

Why do this. Backup the Excel file and the master document, and you'll always be able to recreate any page you want. That's the idea of a backup, isn't it?
Saving the merged 25-pages file is a backup also. It's always possible to print one page.

Why the requirement of having this in 25 separate documents?

Kees

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The "why"...

by Papa Echo Oct 15, 2007 8:57AM PDT

My reason would be to have the individual letter for each destination in the destionation's own folder(which would contain other documents belonging to that destination). I would also save the composite Excel file at a separate location.

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