[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It is not really practical to try and do that simply with a mail merge. It
would be far better to run a macro over the data source and extract the
necessary information.

What is the data source?

If it were a Word document, you may be able to use the Convert Text to Table
facility under the Table menu to convert the data to a 24 column table and
the insert a row at the top of the table and insert field names into that
row and then just insert the fields from the first five columns into a mail
merge main document.

There are other ways, but the best way will be dependent upon the data
source.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"R Alapatt" wrote in message
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I have a data file that lists all the data one below the other. But each
record is a constant number of lines. I need to pick up the address which
is
on 5 lines starting every 25th line.