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More Info On Directory Merge Please
Hi. A search has given me some info on Directory Merge but I need more help.
The following was from Doug Robbins: "Use a Directory type mailmerge main document in which you have a one row table into the cells of which you insert the mergefields. If you have nothing else in the document, when you execute the merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source" I have tried this and I don't get what Doug suggests. My source is an XP/Access 2000 table and I'm merging to Word 2002. The table contains the following records: 1 CPU 1 Hard Drive 1 Keyboard 2 MSWord When I create a Catalogue/Directory merge (using "merge it with microsoft word" from the Access table) and then merge to a new document I get: 1 CPU1 Hard drive1 Keyboard2 MS Word2 If I enter a carriage return after the second merge field, I do get them forming into columns but not in a table. (i.e in a grid layout like an Excel spreadsheet or an Access table). Am I misunderstanding what is supposed to happen? Also, is it really the case that you can't have anything else in the document? I was hoping to merge to a document containing at least some text and ideally some text and a second table. I can see what happens when you put some text in - is there no way around this? Thanks, JohnB |
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