Microsoft KB Archive/84390

= Works: Printing the First Page Only of a Multipage Form Letter =

Article ID: 84390

Article Last Modified on 7/30/2001



This article was previously published under Q84390



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Works version 2.0 for Windows, you cannot print only the first page of a form letter for each record in a database by selecting the Pages option and specifying pages 1 to 1 in the Print dialog box. If you use this technique, only one page will print.



MORE INFORMATION
During a form letter merge, Works internally calculates page numbers for every page that will be generated. The internally calculated page number increments as the print job commences. For this reason, page 1 is actually the first page of the entire job.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, create a new word processing document that contains only the first page of the multipage form letter using the following steps:


 * 1) Select the text on the first page of the existing form letter.
 * 2) From the Edit menu, choose Copy.
 * 3) From the File menu, choose Open New File, and choose the Word Processor button.
 * 4) From the Edit menu, choose Paste.
 * 5) Make any necessary changes to the margins in the new document.
 * 6) From the File menu, choose Print Form Letters, select the All option in the Print dialog box, then choose the OK button.

