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toc in merge document. error when saving as pdf please help!!!

I am merging a long document (+50pgs) that has a table of contents. The final merge will be over 450 split documents that I will then want to save as a pdf file. The merge works fine, but when I try to save as a pdf I get error codes in the toc. If I lock the toc before I save as pdf that works too. However, I will then have to do this 450 times! Also, I can't lock the toc before the merge, as the data location changes as the data location obviously changes as the merge us performed. Does anyone know a way I can perform the merge and have the final merged documents formatted so I can save them as pdf files without getting pages full of error codes in my toc? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

The Merge to Individual Docs utility on my Merge Tools Add-in may do what you want.

You can download the MergeTools – 20140111 Add-in that I created from the following page of my Windows Live SkyDrive:

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=5aedcb43615e886b#!/?cid=5AEDCB43615E886B!cid=5AEDCB43615E886B&id=5AEDCB43615E886B%21566

Save the file in the Word Startup folder.  In Windows XP the default location for that folder is

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

In Windows Vista and Windows 7, it is

C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

When you have done that, the tab shown below will be added to the Ribbon:



One thing to note is that the field names in your data source must contain only alphanumeric characters (No @,#,$,%,&,(,), etc) and the field names must not start with a numeric character (0-9).

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
dougrobbinsmvp@gmail.com
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 97 Applies to: