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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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Default Merge from Excel Data, multiple lines on same letter

you are trying to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key
field)" mailmerge which, "out of the box", 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

or at:

http://cornell.veplan.net/article.aspx?&a=3815


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"LuxAeterna" wrote in message
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I'm trying to do a mail merge of one letter per customer, letting them
know
what they were paid for. Problem: Each line designates who was paid and
the
amount. Some people were paid more than once. I don't want to create one
letter per payment.

How do I tell the mail merge "If the customer name is the same as the line
before, then put the next payment on a second line on the same letter. If
the
customer name isn't the same, move onto the next letter"? Also, can I make
it
look like a table?

For example: Joe Smith was paid
$2.00 on 1/2/08
$3.00 on 2/3/08