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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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MailMerge - repeating information
To answer your question, it is not possible to move backwards through the
data source.
The way that you are doing it now is probably as good as any. I suppose
however, you could just take the first document, the more complete one, copy
the table and paste it into the document at a second location and then from
that new table, delete the columns that you do not need.
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Hello:
I have a mail merge set up to produce two reports.
Report 1 contains a table along the lines of:
Student ID Raw Mark Scaled Mark Pass/Fail etc:
Report 2 contains a simplified version of the same information:
Student ID Pass/Fail
which is for distribution to students (ie, stuff they don't need to know
has
been stripped off it)
The data is merged in from an Excel spreadsheet - that aspect words fine.
I'm using 'NextRecord' to move through the data records, and the result is
exactly what I'm after: a table listing all of the above, with the results
dragged in from Excel.
To save on time and effort, I would like these 2 reports to be part of the
same document, rather than 2 separate docs. However, this would require
one
of two options:
Resetting the mail merge back to the first record, or;
Having cells in the second table reflect the contents of relevant cells in
the first table.
Either would word admirably in theory: but I can't get either of these to
work in practice.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Phil
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