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How do I mail merge to have different names on the main docume
I am having a similar problem. I am trying to merge addresses onto a
postcard template. The template has a text box for the address separate from the text box for the message. Every time I insert the 'next record' into the template (in the beginning of the second, third and fourth address boxes) and try to merge, I get the error msg "You cannot include DATA, NEXT, NEXTIF or SKIPIF fields in headers, footers, footnotes or endnotes." I have tried changing the document type from form letters, to catalog, to labels, to envelopes. None of them work "Dorothy" wrote: Thank you Doug, you are a life-saver and it works so easily!! "Doug Robbins" wrote: You need to insert a Next Record field before the first mergefield in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th invitations. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dorothy" wrote in message ... I'm sending out invitations and I have four to a page. With mail merge it changes the name on every page and I want to change the name on each invitation, I'm ending up with four invitations to the same person. I have used the letter format as I have graphics in the invitation. |
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Don't use text boxes. Use cells of a table to organise things in the
required layout. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "TonyM" wrote in message ... I am having a similar problem. I am trying to merge addresses onto a postcard template. The template has a text box for the address separate from the text box for the message. Every time I insert the 'next record' into the template (in the beginning of the second, third and fourth address boxes) and try to merge, I get the error msg "You cannot include DATA, NEXT, NEXTIF or SKIPIF fields in headers, footers, footnotes or endnotes." I have tried changing the document type from form letters, to catalog, to labels, to envelopes. None of them work "Dorothy" wrote: Thank you Doug, you are a life-saver and it works so easily!! "Doug Robbins" wrote: You need to insert a Next Record field before the first mergefield in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th invitations. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dorothy" wrote in message ... I'm sending out invitations and I have four to a page. With mail merge it changes the name on every page and I want to change the name on each invitation, I'm ending up with four invitations to the same person. I have used the letter format as I have graphics in the invitation. |
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