Publisher.MailMergeDataSource.FirstRecord.md

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MailMergeDataSource.FirstRecord property (Publisher)	vbapb10.chm6291464	vbapb10.chm6291464	Publisher.MailMergeDataSource.FirstRecord	e6eefea9-b353-27ff-d8e4-dc135c0c4665	06/11/2019	medium

MailMergeDataSource.FirstRecord property (Publisher)

Returns or sets a Long that represents the number of the first record to be merged in a mail merge or catalog merge operation. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.FirstRecord

expression A variable that represents a MailMergeDataSource object.

Return value

Long

Example

This example sets the active record as the first record to be merged, and then merges three records ending with the record that is two records forward in the data source. This example assumes that the active publication is a mail merge document.

Sub RecordOne() 
 With ActiveDocument.MailMerge 
 .DataSource.FirstRecord = .DataSource.ActiveRecord 
 .DataSource.LastRecord = .DataSource.ActiveRecord + 2 
 .Execute Pause:=True 
 End With 
End Sub

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