[Graham Mayor]

Word is not really designed to work as you envisage, so you either have to
put up with the complexity or use Access.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Amanda Byrne wrote:
Well, none of those methods are really adequate, or they require more
time to set up than is worth the effort.

The first suggestion won't work well for me as I'm working from a CSV
exported from an online database program, so I'd have to create a
database to go that route, and I might as well create a report in
Access. Also the Leigh Weber example link is non-functional.

The second suggestion is how I set up the document to begin with, and
so is not helpful with the table dilemma.

The third suggestion again seems to be best lined up with an existing
Access database which this is not.

The fourth suggestion again seems more labor intensive than importing
into Access and creating a report.

Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll just try to find an
acceptable way to format the Word document without tables or
temporarily import into Access and set up a report.

Thanks, Amanda

"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi amanda,

In the mail merge FAQ on my website you'll find a summary of the
"one-to-many" (complex document) problem with links to sample
files/articles. Look at the one for using a DATABASE field.

I am creating a document for a nonprofit that will create letters
for our donors and show a summary of their donations. I've created
a Directory Mail Merge that prints a letter for each donor and uses
an IF statement to detemine whether to print another donation for
the current donor, or move on to the next donor. This worked well
on just a text basis, but I would like to print 4 different fields
from my database for each donation, and really need a table format
to pull this off attractively.

The problem is that I need to create a new row in an existing table
for each additional donation, and my IF statement does not see
quotation marks from inside a table. How can I instruct Word to
create a new row?

For more info on the IF statement structure, my document was
created as per this Word article example:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/294686


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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