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Insert Header Row In Table During Merge
Is it possible when merging into a table, during the merge when the LName field
first character changes from A to B to C...that a new row could be inserted and formatted so that the output would look similar to the following. -------------------------------------- A -------------------------------------- Adams Arthur -------------------------------------- B -------------------------------------- Brown Boxleitner Or is it something that has to be done manually after the merge is complete? -- Regards Michael Koerner |
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As long as you want the output in tabular format, I think you will need some
VBA however you do it, if only to remove empty rows between tables. From previous messages my guess is that that's a turn-off :-) However, if you do not actually need to use table rows, you could do this sort of thing using a catalog/directory merge. But I don't think you could do that, then use Table|Convert text to table, unless you were willing to accept that the rows containing "A", "B" would actually have the same number of columns as the Adams, Arthur rows. Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Is it possible when merging into a table, during the merge when the LName field first character changes from A to B to C...that a new row could be inserted and formatted so that the output would look similar to the following. -------------------------------------- A -------------------------------------- Adams Arthur -------------------------------------- B -------------------------------------- Brown Boxleitner Or is it something that has to be done manually after the merge is complete? -- Regards Michael Koerner |
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Peter, thanks. What I do now, after the merge, scroll through the table. When
the first character of the last name changes, I insert a row, and insert the upper case character of the names to follow. I don't know VBA so that is out. This was so simple in WordPerfect. you just entered then code in the merge parameters. -- Regards Michael Koerner "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... As long as you want the output in tabular format, I think you will need some VBA however you do it, if only to remove empty rows between tables. From previous messages my guess is that that's a turn-off :-) However, if you do not actually need to use table rows, you could do this sort of thing using a catalog/directory merge. But I don't think you could do that, then use Table|Convert text to table, unless you were willing to accept that the rows containing "A", "B" would actually have the same number of columns as the Adams, Arthur rows. Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Is it possible when merging into a table, during the merge when the LName field first character changes from A to B to C...that a new row could be inserted and formatted so that the output would look similar to the following. -------------------------------------- A -------------------------------------- Adams Arthur -------------------------------------- B -------------------------------------- Brown Boxleitner Or is it something that has to be done manually after the merge is complete? -- Regards Michael Koerner |
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This was so simple in WordPerfect. you just entered then code in the merge
parameters. Irritating, isn't it? Quite a lot more things would at least be feasible without VBA if it were possible to use Find/Replace to remove empty paragraphs between table rows, but as far as I know even that requires VBA... Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Peter, thanks. What I do now, after the merge, scroll through the table. When the first character of the last name changes, I insert a row, and insert the upper case character of the names to follow. I don't know VBA so that is out. This was so simple in WordPerfect. you just entered then code in the merge parameters. -- Regards Michael Koerner "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... As long as you want the output in tabular format, I think you will need some VBA however you do it, if only to remove empty rows between tables. From previous messages my guess is that that's a turn-off :-) However, if you do not actually need to use table rows, you could do this sort of thing using a catalog/directory merge. But I don't think you could do that, then use Table|Convert text to table, unless you were willing to accept that the rows containing "A", "B" would actually have the same number of columns as the Adams, Arthur rows. Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Is it possible when merging into a table, during the merge when the LName field first character changes from A to B to C...that a new row could be inserted and formatted so that the output would look similar to the following. -------------------------------------- A -------------------------------------- Adams Arthur -------------------------------------- B -------------------------------------- Brown Boxleitner Or is it something that has to be done manually after the merge is complete? -- Regards Michael Koerner |
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Quite irritating at times. Thanks for all the help.
-- Regards Michael Koerner "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... This was so simple in WordPerfect. you just entered then code in the merge parameters. Irritating, isn't it? Quite a lot more things would at least be feasible without VBA if it were possible to use Find/Replace to remove empty paragraphs between table rows, but as far as I know even that requires VBA... Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Peter, thanks. What I do now, after the merge, scroll through the table. When the first character of the last name changes, I insert a row, and insert the upper case character of the names to follow. I don't know VBA so that is out. This was so simple in WordPerfect. you just entered then code in the merge parameters. -- Regards Michael Koerner "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... As long as you want the output in tabular format, I think you will need some VBA however you do it, if only to remove empty rows between tables. From previous messages my guess is that that's a turn-off :-) However, if you do not actually need to use table rows, you could do this sort of thing using a catalog/directory merge. But I don't think you could do that, then use Table|Convert text to table, unless you were willing to accept that the rows containing "A", "B" would actually have the same number of columns as the Adams, Arthur rows. Peter Jamieson "Michael Koerner" wrote in message ... Is it possible when merging into a table, during the merge when the LName field first character changes from A to B to C...that a new row could be inserted and formatted so that the output would look similar to the following. -------------------------------------- A -------------------------------------- Adams Arthur -------------------------------------- B -------------------------------------- Brown Boxleitner Or is it something that has to be done manually after the merge is complete? -- Regards Michael Koerner |
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