Office 2010 mail merge with section breaks printing problem

Afternoon all,
We have an issue and I was wondering if anyelse has come across this and has a solution
Our office staff do many mail merges and once the merge is complete they then can print the whole document with no problems or select one page and do print current page. The problem occurs when trying to print a range i.e. pages 5-7. Once you click print nothing happens, no errors and nothing comes out the printer.
What I have found is that the mail merge is putting in section breaks between each page to seperate them but if I change these to page breaks in the document then I can select pages 5-7 and it prints with no problems.
So the only solution I have found so far is to do a find/replace and find all ^b (section break) and replace with ^m (page break). This is obvioulsy takes more time and is a pain if we have to do this for every mail merge.
I can't find any setting in the mail merge to tell it to use page breaks instead of sections breaks
Has anyone else come across this probem, is it a office bug ???
Any help would be great
Darren

John,
Replying to your posts works just fine. You can choose to reply to either of the other posts & address both in your comments just as you did. I see quite a few threads where the OP (original poster) posts a reply to each & every one who has replied. I think it makes it very difficult to find the actual answers.

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