Mail merge into columns with variable length data?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:03:33 +1000, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:
Sounds like you are trying to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key
field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do:
Not really, I'm just limiting the output to the non-bland fields. I think
that aspect may be sorted, so I'll ignore it for now.
My main problem is getting more than one *record* to be processed. If I was
doing labels, it's easy: I'd just put the following in each table cell:
Surname: HisName [CR]
Tel [CR]
Next Record
But here the problem if different. I don't know how many records I will have
in a given column (or on a given page) because the data in the records is
not all the same length (e.g. some don't have cell phone numbers).
It is, as you say, a directory. I'm trying to replicate the phone book!
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