On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:58:55 GMT, Jezebel wrote:

Columns are not the way to go if you're trying to get things in
column1 to line up with things in column 2. Columns are not
tables; column 2 is a *continuation* of column 1, not an
independent range.

Since I respect your expertise from prior posts, I'll take your word for it, but the columns you described are often called "serpentine," "newspaper," or "newsletter" columns. I had in mind "parallel" columns, which are different. Maybe not the best way to go either, but different nonetheless.

Beyond that, since you haven't explained what you're trying to
do, it's hard to be helpful.

Here's the idea:

I have a database that contains various information about a lot of documents. It's a structured database, so the information is in fields. The database is well-designed to interoperate with Word for the purpose of exporting db data into Word documents. (I have created regular merges, but never catalog merges (in Word, anyway), but I'm assuming it won't be too difficult.) The end result should be multiple rows, each of which will have the following information: a sequential number created in Word (i.e., does not exist in the db); then about five variables from the db fields. Ideally they would all fit across a portrait page, but if necessary one particular field could go right below another particular field. Make sense? It would look something like this:

1. Description of doc A Info_X_on_A Info_Y_on_A etc.
2. Description of doc B Info_X_on_B Info_Y on_B etc.

No doubt a table would be the best way to go, but there is no way to know how many rows there will be from one project to another, and even one project will change from time to time. So I need to dynamically generate the number of records at the time of the merge, depending on the number of records being merged.

Whadyathink?

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