[JKarchner]

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?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

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

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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?

[Peter Jamieson]

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?

[Cindy M.]

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

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