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Directory merge and header rows
Is there any way to create a header row before the mail merge? I would like
to have it so that the header row appears only at the top of each new page. Is this possible? |
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Directory merge and header rows
I assume that you are talking about a catalog or directory type mailmerge.
If that is the case, the best thing is probably to add the row to the top of the table after executing the merge and to then set the Heading Rows to repeat under the tables menu. Or, see the "Group Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...faq1.htm#DBPic Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211303 http://www.knowhow.com/Guides/Compou...poundMerge.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "JKarchner" wrote in message ... Is there any way to create a header row before the mail merge? I would like to have it so that the header row appears only at the top of each new page. Is this possible? |
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Directory merge and header rows
Is this possible?
I do not believe it is possible if you are using a directory merge to create a Word table. Why not? Because you can't put a normal header row before you do the merge because the only way to hide it is to put it inside an IF field, and if you do that, you will then get at least one blank line between each table row in your output - what's more, these blank lines are hard to remove with a macro. Trying to work around it using an INCLUDETEXT field to include the header+row for the first record and just a row for subsequent records does not work because INCLUDETEXT also inserts additional paragraph marks around the included material when it includes a table. You can put a table row with headings in your mail merge main document Header, try to make the gap between the header and the rest of the table as small as possible, and try to ensure that the horizontal layout of the header matches the post-merge layout of the rest of the table. But it's not pretty. If you aren't using a Word table to lay out the data, you should in theory be able to use a nested IF field to insert material just for record 1, e.g. { IF { MERGESEQ } = 1 "insert this stuff" "" } whatever else you want. But don't expect MERGESEQ to work properly in the Merge preview. If you aren't doing any record selection etc. you can probably use { MERGEREC } instead. Peter Jamieson "JKarchner" wrote in message ... Is there any way to create a header row before the mail merge? I would like to have it so that the header row appears only at the top of each new page. Is this possible? |
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Directory merge and header rows
Hi ?B?SkthcmNobmVy?=,
Is there any way to create a header row before the mail merge? I would like to have it so that the header row appears only at the top of each new page. Is this possible? Not directly, no. You can put the "header row" as a separate, one-row table in the document's HEADER (View/Headers and footers). Positioning can be a bit tricky, but it is possible. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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