Grow mode: All records in one long document

Grow mode puts every record into one long document. Rather than splitting into many files, the document "grows" to hold them all.

How it works

The merge produces a single document containing all your records. Grow duplicates the base layout for each record – the same layout, repeated – and appends them into one growing file. Two hundred records become one document with the layout repeated two hundred times.

When to use it

• A single combined document of everything – easy to review, print, or hand off as one file.
• Cases where separate files would just be extra handling.

Grow vs. Flow

Both put many records in one document, but they build it differently. Grow duplicates the base layout – every record gets an identical copy of the same layout. Flow assembles an individual document from components – layout blocks and different master pages – so the result isn’t a repeated layout but a continuous, composed publication. Grow for "the same page, many times"; Flow for a true catalog.

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Flow records across pages like text: Layout Flow Mode