I can't find anything about this in Word 2003, did you say to search on
"directory" merge ??
Ta

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Perhaps I misread this, but I thought he had 30 records he needed to merge
to a single page.

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Hmmm! I suspect that individual form letter may be closer to what is
required, in which case see
http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
What you want is called a "catalog" merge in Word versions through
Word 2000, "directory" in Word 2002 and 2003.


"Village Idiot Dan" Village Idiot
wrote in message
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My girlfriend's a teacher and you should see the gramatical beatings
I get!

Anywoo [it is a real word as I made it up myself], can anyone help
pls. I have a worksheet of, say, 30 rows of info in Excel that I
need to fill in a single page form that is in Word. Now, IF it was
a letter, i'd just mail merge and then print out the resulting 30
page Word document. However, I actually need to save each single
page form in Word with the merged data from Excel. How would I do
this, did anyone manage to stay awake?

Thanks in advance,

Dan


"BostonDocumentation" wrote:

Don't be such a baby. Everybody makes mistakes in typing, and there
is always some smug passive-aggressive person out there just dying
to show you up by pointing out your errors. Just ignore them.

Your question, I believe, has to do with conditional text. In other
words, can you apply a "condition" to text that can be hidden or
shown, depending on what you want to do with it? That way, you can
have one document with all the information in it, and then show the
information pertinent to Level 1 but not Levels 2 and 3.

There are other packages out there that can do this, but I am
having trouble finding out if Word can do this. Right now the only
thing that I can find within Word is the ability to hide the font
of a style (and then everything that uses that style disappears).
This has problems, because it forces you to create multiple styles,
each one specific to a particular Level, and then when you want to
print that Level you have to unhide the fonts for those styles.

But if your document uses minimal styles, say, 10 or less, this
might be the best option for you.

"piddilin" wrote:

You're right about setting up a table would be too messy. The Mail
Merge idea goes way back to when I worked for a Congressman and we'd
merge different paragraphs depending on the person's opinion (and
that's a fact). Sor'ry you'are so easily offend'ed by my apostro'phe,
I didn't know I would be judged on my gram'mar. Also sorry you assume
I'm not qualified to teach Word; obviously you are a better judge
than I am. Thanks, since I am very new to newsgroups, for letting me
know that I can expect to be judged on my overall knowledge by
"thinking outside the box". Next time don't bother responding to my
questions, if you please.

"Jezebel" wrote:

If your topics can each fit in a table row, you could have a
column for the hand-out number (1, 2 or 3), and a column for the
title. To create your master document, sort by title. To create
the individual hand-outs sort by hand-out number and title. A bit
messy, but presumably you don't need to update the whole shebang
very often.

Intrigued to know how you could even think of using mailmerge for
this...the mind boggles, indeed.

What exactly is it that you teach? (Not the use of apostrophes or
MS Word, one hopes.)




"piddilin" wrote in message
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I teach three levels of Word and each level has it's own printed
handout
of topics in alphabetical order. How might I create a document
containing all three levels (topics combined in alphabetical
order)? I have the reverse situation for Excel where I have one
main document containing all three levels and would like to
separate it out into three separate handouts. Add to that the
fact that I only want to make changes once, not have to make a
correction in both sets (main and level). I've thought of
linking but I need to print the handouts, I've thought of Mail
Merge but it boggles the mind, I've looked at Master Documents
and that's more of a table of contents/index. Got any
suggestions?