Why do I get this on the label Mr B Bloggs 24 The Street Overthere WARWICK, Warwickshire, CV11 3GH when I thought I had laid out this:

Hi I need to do a mail merge to deliver an e-mail to our personnel. Problem is the variable data for the letter is in a excel worksheet it shows the 3 columns as: [ staff number} I need it to pull the individdual data from here to insert in the mail merge letter. I then need to e-mail in a mass...

When I complete a mail merge, each merge letter is indicated as page 1 of 1. When I issue a print command, only the current record is printed. I want to print all the records I have merged. How is this done?

Win XP, OFFICE 2003 Pro. I am trying to print envelopes from an existing file saved as a page of labels. I have tried select all and then changed to envelopes but it only prints the first one. Any suggestion since will be over 400 envelopes.

Does anyone have an example, or "link" to a xml merge example for word? What I am looking for is the "classic" invoice, or "repeating" data type merge. That means you have some single fields like Address, Name, Company, and then you have a set of repeating fields: PackageName Qty ...

My users had created several generic mail merge documents in Word 97, now we have upgraded to Office 2003. Remember, these are generic mail merge documents - not every field is used for every merge On 97, if there mail merge field was not used for this particular merge, the document printed fine....

I have a data source in Excel and the merge template in word, just recently I have been getting the message that a DDE connection could not be re-established to open the excel document while in the word document. We have been using both the data source and word template for a number of...

Hi Cindy, The datarow from the merge isn't the problem. The problem is that I want to display the results of the merge in a table. Since I cannot add (or delete) Table rows dynamically to match the merge (that I know of), I am stuck with having a fixed set of Table Rows. Which means that I will...

My data source is an Access query. The phone # is formated correctly in the query, but when merged into a Word doc it looses it's formatting. Instead of this: (206) 860-1400, I get this: 2068601400 Thanks for your ideas - Kristyn

My once-a-year bout with mail merge seems a lot easier with Office 2002 with one problem. I got nice address labels for my Christmas cards. The only thing missing is the ZIP or Postal Code. From every darned label! When I was going through the wizard I made sure that everybody had a ZIP Code. ...

I revise my outlook contact list, but the mailmerge to address envelopes prints the old list. How can I force the mailmerge recipient list to update? Joe

I need help. I created a mail merge table for a form. However, I need to save the individual forms as the data in each is different for each form. How is this done?

Hi, I'm trying to merge data into two places on a page. What I need to do is to have a row 1 go to Area 1, then row 2 go to Area 2, row 3 go to Area 1, row 4 go to Area 2, etc. It's like a label, but my document isn't a label. Any suggestions? Thanks, LG

I have a mail merge to do that creates form letters for everyone at my company. However, I need each person's form letter to be saved in a separate file. Is there a way to have a mail merge take each merged record into a separate document, rather than merge everything into one new document? As...

I am using Word 2002 and a Works data base to print labels. After running the Wizard and selecting all the records, only one label per page is printing. I entered the correct label type (Avery 15160) and have the correct template. Further, when I try to preview the the file after the mail merge,...

I have a project where the datasource for a mailmerge cannot be modified. The customer can enter a complete middlename but on the merge document they only want to see the first letter and a period. (Enter Lee but want to see L.) When merge is clicked a new document is created. How can I modify a...

I often use mail merge to create letters. Then I have to create another document to print envelopes for the letters. I would like to be able to create one merge document and set up both the letter and the matching envelope. When I merge the document it should create 2 new documents, one with the...

I am unable to get my Excel database into a label merge. It works fine until the final step, then there is no data in the labels.

Had a hard time logging in for a while... I had tried that and the closest thing is Edit the Main Document but there I have to add a field to each label because the sheet is already generated. I'd like to go back to where you set it up the first time but with my set up already there (so I can...

I am trying to use Word 2000 to merge an image from a GoldMine 6.5 dBASE database. I have tried the suggestions given so far in this group and I have had only partial success. What I have done so far is to store the path to an image file for each contact in a user-defined field in GoldMine...