Word 2007 mail merge : problem with mixed portrait and landscape orientations

Hi there,
I have a 3 pages document Word 2007 file
This is a mail merge I want to export in PDF using Adobe Acrobat Printer,
then send "big" PDF to printing.
page 1 is PORTRAIT
page 2 is PORTRAIT
page 3 is LANDSCAPE
In PDF pages 1 and 2 are perfectly fine, inside an A4 format (width=210 height=297mm or something)
but for page 3, system changed to a "double" sized page (A3 width=297 height=420) and printed my stuff at the 1st top middle of big page.
So I have a big "double" sheet, oriented PORTRAIT, with my stuff in 1st half, and a blank in 2nd half.
It seems that system did not rotate the page... and just put the stuff into a bigger sheet to "solve" at best.
I would like the same size of paper (A4) but in landscape : width=297 height=210
I have already seen many PDF with mixed portrait and landscape orientations, so what's the thing ?
With my advanced thanks,
And greetings from Paris, France !
Vince

Some questions:
Which version of office were you using before? 2003?
Are the data files on a network, or on your local machine? If they are on a network, can you make a copy of one of them on your local machine and try again?
Can you open the files directly in Excel? What extension do they have (.xls, or something else?) I am wondering whether access to other file types has been left blocked on your machine but is allowed on your colleague's machine.
Are you just opening the mail merge main document and seeing this message? If so, do you see the same thing if you start with a new document and try to connect to one of these data sources?
Can you confirm that the message is about Access even though you are trying to connect to an Excel file?
(Also, office 2007 has some new stuff - that let's you specify that certain folders are "trusted" . I don't think that ever affected MailMerge but it may be as well to make sure that your documents and data sources are in trusted locations).
Also worth trying to start Word in "Safe mode" - see, e.g. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/work-with-office-safe-modes-HP010140792.aspx
Peter Jamieson

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PROCEDURE PR_print_invoice
IS
l_t_application CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_documents CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_source_doc CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_letter_doc CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_merge_doc CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_mail_merge CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_selection CLIENT_OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
l_t_args CLIENT_OLE2.LIST_TYPE;
l_t_args_move_right CLIENT_OLE2.LIST_TYPE;
l_v_sourcefile VARCHAR2(2000);
l_v_letter VARCHAR2(2000);
l_v_mergefile VARCHAR2(2000);
l_v_destination_directory VARCHAR2(2000);
l_v_source_directory VARCHAR2(2000);
l_n_ok NUMBER;
l_n_tax NUMBER;
l_n_total_value NUMBER;
l_n_total_tax NUMBER;
l_v_country VARCHAR2(3);
l_t_bca_client_address_line1 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line1%TYPE;
l_t_bca_client_address_line2 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line2%TYPE;
l_t_bca_client_address_line3 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line3%TYPE;
l_t_bca_client_address_line4 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line4%TYPE;
l_t_bca_client_address_line5 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line5%TYPE;
l_t_bca_client_address_line6 bill_client_address.bca_client_address_line6%TYPE;
l_t_bcl_client_name bill_client.bcl_client_name%TYPE;
l_t_bcl_client_id bill_client.bcl_client_id%TYPE;
l_t_trt_rate tax_rate.trt_rate%TYPE;
l_t_rli_description_1 reference_list.rli_description_1%TYPE;
l_n_item_count NUMBER := 0;
l_b_debug BOOLEAN;
l_b_ok BOOLEAN;
l_n_bookmark NUMBER := 0;
l_n_counter PLS_INTEGER;
CURSOR l_cur_client( p_ti_bcl_seq_num IN bill_client.bcl_seq_num%TYPE )
IS
SELECT bcl_client_id
, bcl_client_name
FROM bill_client
WHERE bcl_seq_num = p_ti_bcl_seq_num
CURSOR l_cur_client_address( p_ti_bcl_seq_num IN bill_client.bcl_seq_num%TYPE )
IS
SELECT bca_client_address_line1
, bca_client_address_line2
, bca_client_address_line3
, bca_client_address_line4
, bca_client_address_line5
, bca_client_address_line6
FROM bill_client_address bca
, role
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AND rol_ref_type = 'INVPOINT'
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l_n_bookmark NUMBER := 0;
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CLIENT_OLE2.DESTROY_ARGLIST( l_t_args );
EXCEPTION
WHEN FORM_TRIGGER_FAILURE
THEN
RAISE;
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
PA_lib_msg.PR_others_exception( 'PA_hci_misc.PR_print_invoice.PR_insert_cell', l_n_bookmark );
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BEGIN
l_n_bookmark := 1;
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l_n_bookmark := 2;
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l_v_source_directory := pa_lib_security.fn_fetch_environment( 'SourceManualInvoiceDirectory' );
l_v_destination_directory := pa_lib_security.fn_fetch_environment( 'DestinationManualInvoiceDir' );
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RETURN;
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l_t_documents := CLIENT_OLE2.GET_OBJ_PROPERTY( l_t_application, 'Documents' );
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THEN
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l_t_args := CLIENT_OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
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THEN
CLOSE l_cur_client;
pa_lib_msg.pr_message_alert( 'STB', -121 );
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CLOSE l_cur_client;
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FETCH l_cur_client_address INTO l_t_bca_client_address_line1
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THEN
CLOSE l_cur_client_address;
pa_lib_msg.pr_message_alert( 'STB', -122 );
END IF;
CLOSE l_cur_client_address;
l_n_bookmark := 12;
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FETCH l_cur_ref_list INTO l_t_rli_description_1;
IF ( l_cur_ref_list%NOTFOUND )
THEN
CLOSE l_cur_ref_list;
pa_lib_msg.pr_message_alert( 'STB', -123 );
END IF;
CLOSE l_cur_ref_list;
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l_n_bookmark := 13;
l_t_selection := CLIENT_OLE2.GET_OBJ_PROPERTY( l_t_application, 'Selection' );
l_t_args_move_right := CLIENT_OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
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CLIENT_OLE2.ADD_ARG( l_t_args_move_right, 1 );
CLIENT_OLE2.ADD_ARG( l_t_args_move_right, 0 );
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IF ( NVL( LENGTH( :blk_manual_inv_header.mih_invoice_prefix), 0 ) = 1 )
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THEN
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END IF;
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THEN
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THEN
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END IF;
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_selection );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_mail_merge );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_source_doc );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_letter_doc );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_merge_doc );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_documents );
CLIENT_OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ( l_t_application );
l_n_bookmark := 41;
SET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(CURSOR_STYLE,'DEFAULT');
EXCEPTION
WHEN FORM_TRIGGER_FAILURE
THEN
SET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(CURSOR_STYLE,'DEFAULT');
RAISE;
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
PA_lib_msg.PR_others_exception('PA_hci_misc.PR_print_invoice',l_n_bookmark);
END;
---------------------------------

Some questions:
Which version of office were you using before? 2003?
Are the data files on a network, or on your local machine? If they are on a network, can you make a copy of one of them on your local machine and try again?
Can you open the files directly in Excel? What extension do they have (.xls, or something else?) I am wondering whether access to other file types has been left blocked on your machine but is allowed on your colleague's machine.
Are you just opening the mail merge main document and seeing this message? If so, do you see the same thing if you start with a new document and try to connect to one of these data sources?
Can you confirm that the message is about Access even though you are trying to connect to an Excel file?
(Also, office 2007 has some new stuff - that let's you specify that certain folders are "trusted" . I don't think that ever affected MailMerge but it may be as well to make sure that your documents and data sources are in trusted locations).
Also worth trying to start Word in "Safe mode" - see, e.g. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/work-with-office-safe-modes-HP010140792.aspx
Peter Jamieson

MS Word 2007 Mail Merge Doc save as changes content of other documents everytime I save as a new document

Have a mail merge initiated in Access that creates a Merge document. When I save the document as newXXX.doc..........., doc is saved but internal contents of oldXXX.doc are also changed to match last saved document. Help please.

That suggests you are saving a copy of the mailmerge main document instead of executing the merge to create an output document - which is the one you should be saving. Consequently, with your current process, the saved document remains linked to the data
source.
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

Problems with 4s images and videos orientation

I'm a new Iphone 4s user, and an avid photographer. I don't own an Apple computer, and I've run into an issue with photo orientation. Using the volume button as shutter button (volume buttons pointing upwards in landscape mode), in pc programs the images and videos come out upside down. Evidently the orientation tag recorded by the phone is not universal, so most video programs don't get the orientation right. Are there any plans to correct this?
Thanks for any help with this.

This always happened in Lr 1.0.
Lr 1.1 has the option of choosing the copyright status just like PS. It is near the bottom when All Metadata is shown.

Word 2007 mail link error

In Word 2007 Mail Merge ToolsOptionsSave method returns ole2_object class error and terminate the process does not allow
Does anyone know what can be?

Some questions:
Which version of office were you using before? 2003?
Are the data files on a network, or on your local machine? If they are on a network, can you make a copy of one of them on your local machine and try again?
Can you open the files directly in Excel? What extension do they have (.xls, or something else?) I am wondering whether access to other file types has been left blocked on your machine but is allowed on your colleague's machine.
Are you just opening the mail merge main document and seeing this message? If so, do you see the same thing if you start with a new document and try to connect to one of these data sources?
Can you confirm that the message is about Access even though you are trying to connect to an Excel file?
(Also, office 2007 has some new stuff - that let's you specify that certain folders are "trusted" . I don't think that ever affected MailMerge but it may be as well to make sure that your documents and data sources are in trusted locations).
Also worth trying to start Word in "Safe mode" - see, e.g. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/work-with-office-safe-modes-HP010140792.aspx
Peter Jamieson

Portrait and landscape pages in same ID document?

I'm using InDesign in CS4 and am definitely not an expert user. This may seem odd, but I have a need to produce a document that contains both portrait and landscape oriented pages but I would rather rotate the page 90° to the right rather than rotate the content 90° to the left so that I am not craning my neck while working on the content. Is this possible? If so, how? Thank you in advance for an assist.

In the pages panel, choose Rotate Spread View from the panel menu.

Email PDF from Mail Merge Problem

Using a data source of email addresses from Excel 2003 and performing a mail merge in Word 2003 with the Mail Merge to Adobe PDF button, everything worked okay and the emails generated to the outbox in Outlook 2003 with the relevant PDFs attached. However, once they were mailed the recipients who use Outlook Express had the attachments missing. I'm using Acrobat 8.1.5
I've seen previous queries about this and it seems to relate to Outlook using a RTF format. I set Outlook to default to html and then plain text formats but still had the same problem. Can anyone suggest how I can solve this or if the problem is Outlook related, then another email program that would work without causing this problem (preferable freeware or inexpensive).
Thanks

Just an interesting after thought, since you mentioned blocking. Several federal agencies and companies block zip files also. I ran onto a message recently about the university blocking zip files at one time because of a problem. Mail merge files are typically personalized and it would be nice for them to go intact. If they re not personalized, but just being sent in general, then posting the basic file and e-mailing a link might work better. For a lot of things I do, I just use the mail merge that is built into my e-mail client. That creates a mail-merge of messages that are personalized.
Just thought the blocking comment might be of interest, though I give the same advice. I am not sure how it could be done with zip in a mail merge sense.

Word experienced a serious problem with the 'acrobat pdfmaker office com addin' add-in. after Office Updates.

I cant cant use mail merge feature in Winword in conjunction with Abobe Acrobat 10 (pdfmaker add-in) after the recent Office April Windows and Office Updates.
Here is a quick note from the event viewer:
The program WINWORD.EXE version 14.0.7134.5000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 1138
Start Time: 01d07dcede19c458
Termination Time: 15
Application Path: C:\Program (file:///C:/Program) Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE
Report Id:
Microsoft Word: Accepted Safe Mode action : Word experienced a serious problem with the 'acrobat pdfmaker office com addin' add-in. If you have seen this message multiple times, you should disable
this add-in and check to see if an update is available. Do you want to disable this add-in?.
I do not wish to disable the pdfmaker add-in as I use it to run mail merge on WORD and send 10s and 1000s of pdfs via email to external users. I am not sure what are my options here and I wish
someone could help me get to the root cause of the matter.
My environment is as follows:
Windows 7 x64 SP1
Office 2010 v 14.0.7128.5000
Adobe Reader MUI X and Adobe Acrobat X
Feroze

Hi,
As the event log indicated, this is due to acrobat pdfmaker office com addin doesn't work well with Microsoft Word.
I would suggest you go ahead and try to upgrade your Adobe product to the latest version and see if issue persists.
Or contact the support of Adobe and see if there is a known compatibility issue or not.
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Yahoo Mail push problem with stock email app

It is nice to see that Verizon is offering push services for yahoo mail (and possibly for others as well, I only tried yahoo) on select phones now, the Droid Charge being one of them. If you add a yahoo account in the stock email app, it configures it through "Verizon email gateway server" and the messages will be pushed to the phone just like gmail had been, and you will get your new messages almost instantaneously.
I previously had an htc incredible and that phone did not have that feature. My e-mails were being checked at an interval that I could select, but not pushed.
What this email gateway does is (as I understand it): 1) your phone sends your credentials to the gateway server where they are stored, 2) the server connects to yahoo mail servers with your credentials, and 3) whenever there is a new message, the gateway server retrieves and pushes it to your phone, in other words it pretty much acts as the middle man that has a notification capability. The gateway server only accesses your inbox folder and it only does incoming services. For other things such as sending messages or checking other folders, your phone connects to yahoo mail servers directly. My incredible on the other hand used to connect to yahoo mail servers directly for everything including inbox access and unfortunately those servers do not have the push capability to mobile devices.
I got the Charge over two weeks ago and enjoyed push on yahoo for about ten days. But then suddenly it stopped working. It would no longer update my inbox even when I selected refresh through the menu. If I went into other folders, they would update and I could send emails. However, my inbox would not update. I waited a day, then I went into settings/apps/manage apps and deleted the cache and data of the mail application to fix a possible glitch. (It works on the market app when all of your downloaded apps disappear from the list every once in a while due to a glitch)
I ended up with a blank inbox that couldn't download any of the messages. Then I removed the yahoo account and tried to readd. Now I get the "Fetching mailbox failed, retrying. . ." error and sometimes it retries for up to a half hour (until I manually stop it) or sometimes it says "Unable to connect to server" after a couple of minutes.
Following is a list of things I tried:
1) Set up a different Yahoo account:
Works without a glitch, push enabled
2) Try the original email account with wrong password:
Gives a credential error, so password authentication is not the problem
3) Manual configuration through selecting "Others" rather than "Yahoo Mail" in the add account menu:
Unchecking "Use Verizon email gateway" makes it work, but without push. My phone is able to connect to Yahoo servers directly with the same exact settings
I am pretty sure the problem is with the Verizon gateway server having a glitch with my email account. So someone in charge of that server has to go through the list of accounts set up and either reset or delete mine, so I can set it up again through my phone.
I called Verizon support the other day and finally talked to a level 2 rep after having to do the restart, take battery out and all that nonsense. It took them a while to understand the actual situation. It's not their fault really, my problem is complicated and a level 2 rep simply does not have that kind of knowledge. They tried to connect me to Samsung representatives, which was a waste of time, because there is nothing wrong with the hardware as it works with a different yahoo account with no problems, and it also works when connecting to yahoo directly. After spending two and a half hours on the phone, and after the rep talked to her supervisor and the samsung reps to learn more about the verizon gateway server, she finally told me I was right about the issue, and assured me that they would fix it and call me within two hours.
It has been two days, I haven't heard a thing.
What frustrates me is that there wasn't a single person there who could even grasp what could be causing the issue. They had never heard about the email gateway, I had to explain to them. I am not mad that the level 2 rep or her supervisor didn't know, but I am pretty **bleep** that they could not put me in touch with a person who did.
I know there is at least one person at Verizon who manages the gateway server, but the question is how can anyone contact him???
Verizon keeps offering these new services that are really cool for the most part, but their support system is very disconnected from their engineers/technical staff. The customer service is unable to fix problems other than billing issues, and their answer for everything else is to "take the battery out and restart the phone".
For now, I set up my account manually, without the Verizon email gateway, so I don't have "push" working. It's a shame because it is such an easy thing to fix only if I could get in touch with the right person.

UPDATE:
After waiting for about ten days, I tried setting up my e-mail the regular way (by selecting yahoo mail) again yesterday. To my surprise, it went through without a glitch. I guess the cache of the gateway server must have been reset.
I have been enjoying push for yahoo mail for the last 24 hours again. But I just noticed now, that the problems might be starting again. There are recent e-mails that don't show up on my phone, but do through yahoo's web mail page. When I select "refresh" through the menu on the phone, I see the circle in the top corner spinning for as long as I wait, but the e-mails don't get downloaded. That is exactly how my problems had started in the first place. I will give it the benefit of the doubt and wait and hope that it fixes itself.
There might be a compatibility problem with yahoo servers and the verizon email gateway because I have two gmail accounts set up with the stock e-mail the same way, both using verizon's gateway server for push, and they have both been working with no problems for almost a month. (Even though sometimes the "push" is delayed by up to 5-10 min, most of the time it is within a couple of minutes and that's fine, I'm not that picky) And when I do "refresh", ti only takes a few seconds to complete the request.
And I still haven't heard anything from Verizon.

Can all Acrobat Readers open files with mixed orientation pages (portrait and landscape)?

Can all Acrobat Readers open files with mixed orientation pages (portrait and landscape)? If not, which versions can? Thanks!

Hi Sami,
You can open files with mixed page orientations in all Adobe Readers There is no such constraint on opening files with different page orientations in Adobe Readers.
In case if you have any other query please let us know. We will be happy to assist you.
Regards,
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Problems sending mail: some problem with the outgoing mail server SMTP?

I can't send e mails: some problem with the outgoing mail server SMTP?

I had this same problem with both my imac and mac book pro using hotmail via mac mail with bt as my internet provider. Suddenly 4 months ago out of nowhere i could receive emails but could not send them. I scoured all the threads followed all the fixes none of them worked. However I just phoned apple support and fixed it in a matter of minutes. I am SO happy. This is what the technician advised me:
Go to your apple icon and scroll down to system preferences. Then dependant on what machine you have it is different for my imac and mac book pro click on either air port/wifi then the advanced tab in the bottom right hand corner. Then click on the DNS tab. Hit the + sign on the left hand side and type in 8.8.8.8 then hit the + sign again on the left hand side it will create a new line underneathe and type 8.8.4.4 then hit okay on the bottom right and then hit apply, again on the bottom right. Then send a test email to check but it should be fixed.
Had to share this. Its been driving me mad for months.

Interesting Mail App Problem with 3G

OK
First off, I haven't had a chance to hit a computer to update to 2.2, Just moved to a new city and no high speed internet yet, maybe I can get a free update at a local Apple Store, See what happens here.
But from the sounds of it and forum posts. its caused more problems then 2.1
Anyways, Iphone 3G is using 2.1
I added a Hushmail IMAP Account to it.
I followed their Mac OS X Instructions and I can send and recieve email no problem.
But,
If I turn on push 15 mins, send a test mail to myself, my main mail ICON isn't showing a red number above it when I get email, It will make a quick vibrate and noise, but no number.
Second, I have searched and searched.
My Email isn't going into the MAIN Inbox in the Mail App
Seems like it is being dumped into a Seperate INBOX folder below the main INBOX.
I can see my spam mail folder etc as subfolders below the main INBOX and the INbox folder its dumping my mail into.
I have tried adding /INBOX, INBOX, /Inbox, Inbox to my IMAP Path prefix and that doesn't seem to fix it and make my email going into the main INBOX.
Hushmail just got a email from me asking them about a IMAP Path Prefix, see what they have to say.
What does everyone else think here to solve this problem with the Updating and getting my email into the Main INBOX instead of a Sub-folder Inbox.
Thanks for looking
Total_War

Not sure,but are thseyour settings?
iCloud Mail setup, even in 10.4/10.5…
Don't delete your old account yet. Just setup a new one in Mail>Preferences>Accounts, little plus icon. Choose IMAP as account type, not ,mac or MobileMe.
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
Server name: imap.mail.me.com
SSL Required: Yes
Port: 993
Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
SSL Required: Yes
Port: 587
SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password

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