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Peter Jamieson Peter Jamieson is offline
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Default Mailmerge: First Record in stead of Next Record

Frankly, the simplest approach is to do the following
a. set up a "catalog/directory" type merge that creates your first page.
You will probably just need one line on it with merge fields, plus one extra
paragraph mark. You shouldn't need any Next record fields
b. set up a second "Letter" type merge that produces one page of output per
"recipient"
c. perfrom each merge to an output document
d. insert one output document at the ned of the other using File|Insert
e. add any other trim you need.

If you need to do that regularly, I'd suggest that it's simpler to get the
above process right, then record/edt a smalll macro to automate it, than to
try to do it all in a single merge.

An alternative for step (a) may be to enable the Database toolbar in Word
(Tools|Customize) then use the Insert Database icon to insert the data
(perhaps as a field, so it's easy to repeat if you need to). But your
control over the table layout is fairly limited.

Peter Jamieson


"Guus" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have a mailmerge document, merging with Exceldata, which start with a
summary of scores on the first page. The following pages show the
detail-information for every recipient on a own page.

1. On the summary (first page) a print the final score; then I skip to the
following recipient with the Wordfield Next Record
E.g. 10 rows will be filled with information when I finish the mailmerge.

2. The Second page and following show all the subscores of every
recipient;
this information uses ONE page for EACH recipient.

MY PROBLEM IS:
The second page I want to start (again) on the first record, because in
the
summary I have reached the last record.

So, I want to INSERT MERGEFIELD
- First Record, so the opposite of Next Record

How can I fix this problem?
Thank you in advance.
Guus