Assuming that by columns you mean similar to a table, but possibly without
the borders, in the catalog mailmerge main document, insert the mergefields
into the cells of a one row 3 column table with nothing else in the
document. When you execute the merge, then the data for each record will
appear on a separate row in the table.

Make sure in the main document, that none of the cells have paragraph
formatting of "page break before" applied to them.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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I'm using Word 2000 and I did specify catalog and not form letter. I did
go
back and check that it hadn't been changed. Any other suggestions? Has
anyone else seen this happen?

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?V29ya2luZyBhdCBIb21l?=,

I created a catalog and needed to format the data in 3 columns instead
of
using tabs. When I did this I got an automatic page break after each
record
that I can't get rid of. I tried to make sure the break at the end of
the
column is a continuous break but that also did not seem to change the
result.

Which version of Word? Did you specify the merge type as catalog? What
you
describe sounds more like a "form letter" or other kind of merge type.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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