theoretical mail merge/word question...

[Mary Caelsto]

I have a theoretical question and haven’t gotten any replies on the Microsoft forums.

 

Is it possible to use mail merge to personalize a file with information and then have the mail merge spit out a PDF of that file?

 

For example, when you mail merge a letter, the end result is a document file with all the letters together (20 letters, for example, one to each page so your output document is 20 pages). What I would like, since I’m working with larger multi-page documents, would be to have the mail merge spit out the individual documents and put them into a PDF file.

 

I am using Word 2007, which does have PDF conversion abilities.

 

Curious minds really want to know….

 

Thanks!
Mary

 

 

 

 

[Todd Walton]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Mary Caelsto <maryc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use mail merge to personalize a file with information and
> then have the mail merge spit out a PDF of that file?

I researched this very question a couple of months ago. I was unable
to find a way to do it with just Word. There are, however, third
party pieces of software out there that claim to do it.

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Todd

[Les Roth]

Mary,

Do you have Windows? If so, you'll need a PDF "Printer Driver". I've seen a couple of them online, dopdf and cutepdf. Once installed, you would do your merge, then print to the new driver, creating your pdf.

If you have a Mac, the PDF printer driver is already built in.

Les

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[Mary Caelsto]

Thanks, Todd. Can you shoot me an email off list about these third party
pieces of software. Basically I am looking to plug in review site names and
then "watermark" in several places the review site for the review copies we
send out. That way we can trace down where the pirated copies of ebooks are
coming from (i.e. customers who buy then upload, or reviewers/free copy
winners who pass them around.) Just trying to trace things back to the
source.

Mary

[Mary Caelsto]

Thanks, Les. Yes, Word 2007 automagically converts to PDF and I have a PDF driver on this desktop. In addition, I have bonafide adobe acrobat 6.0 on my laptop with Word 2003. My problem is, if I merge into a 150 page ebook 20 review site names, I don’t want a document that’s a gazillion pages long and then have to break it up to PDF it.

 

Appreciate all the help!

Mary

[Todd Walton]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Mary Caelsto <maryc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Todd. Can you shoot me an email off list about these third party
> pieces of software.

Alas, I'm not familiar with them. I wouldn't even know the names I came across.

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Todd