Mail Merge Generating Too Many Documents

Trueblue862

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Messages
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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
Hi, I have this piece of code below which I found on this forum and adapted to my purpose. The issue I'm having is when I only have to do the mail merge for one document, it generates two documents. For two or more documents it works perfectly. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
VBA Code:
Sub DoMailMerge()
'Note: A VBA Reference to the Word Object Model is required, via Tools|References
Dim wdApp As New Word.Application, wdDoc As Word.Document
Dim strWorkbookName As String: strWorkbookName = ThisWorkbook.FullName
With wdApp
  'Disable alerts to prevent an SQL prompt
  .DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
  'Open the mailmerge main document
  Set wdDoc = .Documents.Open("H:\Reception\New reception (working).docx", _
    ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=True, AddToRecentfiles:=False)
  With wdDoc
    With .MailMerge
      'Define the mailmerge type
      .MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
      'Define the output
      .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
      .SuppressBlankLines = True
      'Connect to the data source
      .OpenDataSource Name:=strWorkbookName, ReadOnly:=True, _
        LinkToSource:=False, AddToRecentfiles:=False, _
        Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, _
        Connection:="Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;" & _
        "User ID=Admin;Data Source=strWorkbookName;" & _
        "Mode=Read;Extended Properties=""HDR=YES;IMEX=1"";", _
        SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `Mail Merge$`", _
        SubType:=wdMergeSubTypeAccess
      With .DataSource
        .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord
        .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord
      End With
      'Excecute the merge
      .Execute
      'Disconnect from the data source
      .MainDocumentType = wdNotAMergeDocument
    End With
    'Close the mailmerge main document
    .Close False
  End With
  'Restore the Word alerts
  .DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsAll
  'Display Word and the document
  .Visible = True
End With
End Sub
 

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Never mind, found the solution. When I'm clearing out the data set I've changed ".clearcontents" out for ".entirerow.delete" and it solved the problem. There was obviously something in the cells causing it to think there was still a record there.
 
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