Split a Mail Merged document into SEPARATE documents with custom file names [No Coding] 

A big thank you. I know this process a long time ago (Office 2010), so your video is a big help.

awesome helpful!!

So underrated Thanks man :)

Thanks for the tutorial...

Thank you - you're a star !

Hi Nicos, do you know why the individual generated documents loose the format (images) after being generated. my original document had images and branding then after doing the individual document splitting then I lost the formatting.

excellent

Thanks Sir..........God bless u

Just so you know, after HOURS of trying to figure out why this won't work, I moved the bulk merge file OFF OneDrive and onto my local C and now it works *headthud

Firstly thank you so much for your video; I have a question that it doesn't work with special character like _ or ., how can I deal with that?

Thanks for the tutorial!! It is really going to help me speed up part of my work! Have you come across the new individual files ended up with a different format? I've tried this a few times and the new files all have 1.5 line spacing and change font from my original document that has single spacing. Is there a template setting I need to change somewhere that I'm not seeing?

Hello Nic! Thanks for the useful tutorial! I have maybe a silly question. Is possible to keep reference stiles when splitting or merging? I split the thesis but I lost the reference's style and format. Thaks!

Hi Nicos! Thank you for the video, do you have any samples that could retain the headers and footers?

Thanks for the super helpful video. Do you know the alternative for the name of file which is using number? For Example WO12-1. Is there a way to change that ? thank you

Woow. Thanks

Omg this was super helpful. This may be a silly question but what if the mail merge doc was saved as PDF? Can you split pdf or this only works in Word?

Thank you for your video. It was so helpful! I've watched several videos on this topic and yours was the easiest to follow. Have you had an issue with the merge creating an extra page at the end of the individual saved documents? I checked and have no extra page breaks, etc. Is there a fix for this? Thank you!

Hi, this is realy helpful once I figured out the solution to the errors Ive been receiving 😢 i got “ the selection does not consist of heading levels” after trying to create a show document Hope you could help! 😊

Hello! Thank you so much for this great idea! I’ve followed the tutorial but I am getting an error message right at the end when I click create ‘Cannot create a subdocument within a table’. Any idea why this might be?

Good instructions. I remember I knew that a while ago but I forgot them. I could not include the name of the folder at the beginning and as a result I included my desired title "Party invitation for " and then I have changed the colour of the line to white. As such, it did not show on file. Imperfection 1: After I have performed the outline process, all the resulted documents have a "section break" at the end of the last word...and then another blank page. I s there any way to remove that section end + blank page? Imperfection 2: After the outline process, all the resulted documents have their lines at 1,5 distance instead of 1 in the original document. Is there any way to keep the original formating?

My merged document had different headers and footers every so often (in your case, say each student had a header with the name and date of the class they were in, the first 4 being in "Chemistry 101: Fall 2024" and the next 5 being in "Literature 232: Spring 2025," etc). This way of splitting leaves the header and footer information in the "master document" and the split documents lose that (along with a lot of formatting). Is this really just a work around using the "master document" concept--that these individual files can all be edited separately and then fed back into the master document--because Word somehow doesn't have any native function or capability for users to say "Split this document into multiple documents after every 3 pages" or "...after the following page numbers," for example? How is there no way to simply break a document up in 2 clicks?

This is brilliant. Do you know any way that I can get more characters merging at once. I have a lot of text in each cell and it seems to be cutting some of it off. I have looked online at creating a dummy column but that doesn't seem to be doing it. Any ideas please?

When I click create, it just keeps saying “the selection does not consist of heading levels.” But it does and it’s highlighted. Anyone else run into this issue?

Hi Nicos - Great tutorial - thank you. The only problem I have with this technique is that although my document should only be one page per student, it is creating a second blank page for some strange reason - any ideas why?

I have tried this a number of times and I can't locate where the individual files are saving. I have saved the merged doc to a folder first. We use one drive at work and I wonder if that's the issue, not on my local drive? Before I watch your 45 min coding video thought I'd ask if there are other options when on a cloud one drive thanks !

in my case header is not taken into individual document and one empty page is always added. Any suggestions?

When I click "create" I can see that it wants to create separate documents, but it doesn't. I'm getting the sense that it has something to do with being synced to One Drive. How do I circumvent this?

Thank you for this great video. It was very helpful. The one challenge I am getting is that it's saving the subdocumenets to the INetCache folder in Windows, not the original folder with the main document. Is there a way to change that?

Hi. I just came across this solution and when trying to implement this, i keep getting an error message "the selection does not consis of heading levels

I followed the instructions to a tee . .When I click "Create', a message pops up "the selection does not consist of heading levels'. I have a header in the document but hide it. I tried the heading type in header and then removed, still the message shoes up. Am I missing another step?

Hi, this trick doesn't work when the document has a header and footer. Can you please help with a solution?

I cannot get this to work - why? My document is 2 pages, with Heading 1 at the top and the rest of the document is in Body Text - I go to View > Outline > select the whole document > Show Document > Create - and nothing happens ... help! :-(

I works but included an additional extra blank page in the end of each document ... how to solved it ?

Hello, Nicos! Thanks for the tutorial. I used the one with coding and succeeded. Saved a lot of my time! This one, though, I tried several times already and failed everytime. When I clicked Save, it just saved the merged file but it doesn't create those files per name. What did I do wrong?

Good Instructions. But not suitable where there are letter header and footers.

I followed the directions and it still didn't work for me :*(

Brilliant concept - however, my final documents had changed the fonts and removed the header image. So I'm going to retry with your mail merge with the macro in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NVk-XJ_4K8o.html