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Default Mail merge and long tables

Thank you so much for the help that you gave me. I'm sorry that i didnt
mention that the table is contained within a text. I did not create the
document template and therefore did not know how everything was done in it.
You suggestion of removing the text box around the table worked just like you
said it would. However i have run into some new problems now. When the data
runs onto the next page, i would like the first row of the table to be
repeated as the header on the second page. But when i select that option, it
does not appear on the next page. Is there some way to fix it? My next
problem is that because i am using a directory mail merge, the tables for
each record appear on right after one another, and not on separate pages like
i want them to. When i use the letter mail merge i get what i want, but the
pages are not numbered like they are in the directory merge. Is there a way
around this, i would still prefer to use the directory merge.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Send me a copy of the mailmerge main document and a bit of a file that
displays the problem and I will take a look at it.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"JKarchner" wrote in message
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I am using the directory type and have it set up so that each record should
be at least one page. The table size is that big. I can send you a copy
of
the mail merge document if you want, would you like the actual merged
document or just the sample of what the merge is going to look like?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I am sorry, but it is still not really clear to me how your mail merge
main
document is set up. If it is a directory type mail merge main document,
there would not normally be a new page for each record (unless the data
for
a record completely fills the page). If the field for the record that is
"found" on the next page was in a cell in the table, then I do not see
how
the record would be appearing outside of that cell.

Maybe you should send me a copy of the mail merge main document so that I
can understand how you have it set up.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"JKarchner" wrote in message
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I created a table that has 10 rows in it. I sued a mail merge to bring
in
data from Access by using the directory option. I placed the results
from
the query in the corresponding rows. The trable is recreated on every
page
for each record that is returned from the query. Now the problem
arises
when
the rows begin to get larger because of results with longer fields.
When
the
table should continue on the next page it doesnt, and instead the
record
is
found there. How would i go about setting it up so that my table is
continued on the next page?


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Can you explain in a bit more detail how you have the mergefields
arranged
in the Directory type mailmerge main document and what it is that
causes
the
"table" for each new record to start on a new page.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"JKarchner" wrote in message
...
I am using a mail merge to put data into a table from Access. Each
table
is
a new record, i used the directory option, and each table lies on a
new
page.
My problem lies when the data in the record causes the table to be
longer
than 1 page. The table is not continued on the next page, and all
of
the
data not on the page is "lost". Is there any way to fix it?