If you have to resort to using a macro, the following approach might be
simpler:
Run the following macro to transfer each line into a "document variable"
so that variable "line1" contains the first line from your file,
variable "line2" contains the second line, and so on.
Then you can insert (say) the 3rd line using a field like
{ DOCVARIABLE line3 }
Sub TransferTextRowsToVariables()
Dim iCount As Integer
Dim strLine As String
' use your file name here
Open "c:\a\ascii.txt" For Input As 1
iCount = 0
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, strLine
iCount = iCount + 1
On Error Resume Next
ActiveDocument.Variables("line" & iCount).Delete
Err.Clear
On Error GoTo 0
ActiveDocument.Variables.Add "line" & iCount, strLine
Wend
Close #1
End Sub
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Bernie wrote:
Hi Graham,
Your first paragraph is correct. Can you tell me what a "merge data format"
looks like?
Then I could add that to my ascii file. I need to automate this process so
going thru Excel is not a choice.
Also, can you give me the steps for specifying how to create the merge field
into the Word doc and how do I specify to Word, to get the data from my ascii
file.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Bernie
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
I assume that the list will be merged into various places in the same
document, rather than one place in 20 different documents?
That being the case, you will need first to convert the list to a merge data
format.
This is probably simplest to do in Excel. Open the text file in Excel then
transpose the list so that the entries are all in one row. insert a header
row and name the columns A, B, C etc will work.
Save the file as an Excel document and use that as a merge data source for a
letter merge. Insert the 20 fields where you want them. Merge to a new
document.
If the list is to be merged into the same place in 20 documents, open the
list in Word convert the text to a one column table. Add a row at the top
and give the column a name. Save as a document and use that as a merge data
source.
The principles of mail merge are covered at
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm or
http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm
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Bernie wrote:
I want to merge fields from an ascii file into a word document.
The ascii file has a word or phrase on each line. Each line will be a
merged field. There will be approx 20 lines to be merged into various
places in the document.
How do you set up the word doc to receive these fields?