You are trying to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key field)"
mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do:

See the "Group Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP
Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...faq1.htm#DBPic


Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211303


http://www.knowhow.com/Guides/Compou...poundMerge.htm


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"Charles" wrote in message
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in my records i have loans with different transaction codes. each loan
has a
counter tied to it. Is there a way to use this counter to possibly print
the
records for each loan on the same page.

i have read about the Next Record but thats not working out too well.

can you use loops in word? because im thinking of a while loop to scroll
through the counter and print the records for each loan