[JEverhart]

I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has 20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[Peter Jamieson]

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has 20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[JEverhart]

The data sources are Excel spreadsheets.

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has 20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[Peter Jamieson]

OK, to /merge/ into a pre-existing table layout with a fixed cell layout
(column 1 with 20 cells, column 2 with 10 cells etc., unless I have
misunderstood?) is difficult because Word wants to fill the cells row by
row, i.e. row1col1, row1col2, row1col3, row2col1 etc. So you would really
have to rearrange your data in that sequence.

In this case it might be easier not to use a merge, but to copy/paste
special|paste link each cell into your table. In fact, if you select the
first cell you want to use in Excel, then edit copy, then edit|paste, paste
link (use a plain text or rtf format) into word, then use Alt-F9 to reveal
the pasted LINK field code in Word. You should be able to copy the LINK
field and modify the workbook/sheet/cell reference for each cell in your
table.

(You'd need Excel on the machine that's going to do the "merge" to do it
that way).

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
The data sources are Excel spreadsheets.

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has
20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to
pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[JEverhart]

The merged Word doc will ultimately be 560 pages.
1. Can I then separate it into individual documents (16 pages each) and save
them?
2. Do the Excel files have to be kept in the same folder on the
computer/system in order for the links to work?

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, to /merge/ into a pre-existing table layout with a fixed cell layout
(column 1 with 20 cells, column 2 with 10 cells etc., unless I have
misunderstood?) is difficult because Word wants to fill the cells row by
row, i.e. row1col1, row1col2, row1col3, row2col1 etc. So you would really
have to rearrange your data in that sequence.

In this case it might be easier not to use a merge, but to copy/paste
special|paste link each cell into your table. In fact, if you select the
first cell you want to use in Excel, then edit copy, then edit|paste, paste
link (use a plain text or rtf format) into word, then use Alt-F9 to reveal
the pasted LINK field code in Word. You should be able to copy the LINK
field and modify the workbook/sheet/cell reference for each cell in your
table.

(You'd need Excel on the machine that's going to do the "merge" to do it
that way).

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
The data sources are Excel spreadsheets.

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has
20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to
pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[JEverhart]

By the way, the data doesn't have to be in table format. I can remove them
from the table and just have the merge occur using TABS to create the 3
columns that are needed.

--
JEverhart


"JEverhart" wrote:

The merged Word doc will ultimately be 560 pages.
1. Can I then separate it into individual documents (16 pages each) and save
them?
2. Do the Excel files have to be kept in the same folder on the
computer/system in order for the links to work?

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, to /merge/ into a pre-existing table layout with a fixed cell layout
(column 1 with 20 cells, column 2 with 10 cells etc., unless I have
misunderstood?) is difficult because Word wants to fill the cells row by
row, i.e. row1col1, row1col2, row1col3, row2col1 etc. So you would really
have to rearrange your data in that sequence.

In this case it might be easier not to use a merge, but to copy/paste
special|paste link each cell into your table. In fact, if you select the
first cell you want to use in Excel, then edit copy, then edit|paste, paste
link (use a plain text or rtf format) into word, then use Alt-F9 to reveal
the pasted LINK field code in Word. You should be able to copy the LINK
field and modify the workbook/sheet/cell reference for each cell in your
table.

(You'd need Excel on the machine that's going to do the "merge" to do it
that way).

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
The data sources are Excel spreadsheets.

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column has
20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs to
pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option. Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart

[Peter Jamieson]

OK, I think you are attempting a rather different type of merge from the one
I imagined. Maybe you could spell out how your data needs to map into the
final results in a little more detail?

e.g. if you are going to create 35 copies of your 16-page mail merge main
document, then you presumably have another data source that has 35 rows in
it to drive the merge? Is the same data from the same Excel sheets going
into each of the 35 copies, or are you trying to get rows 1-20 from sheet 1
into copy 1, rows 21-40 iinto copy 2, etc.?

It is highly likely that this merge is going to be beyond the
"out-of-the-box" capabilities of Word, but let's see.

(For the "splitter" part, see the material by Graham Mayor and Doug Robbins
at http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm - I suspect that the
"splitter" code near the bottom is going to be more useful in this case as I
suspect your merge may be too complex for the add-in to be useful)

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
The merged Word doc will ultimately be 560 pages.
1. Can I then separate it into individual documents (16 pages each) and
save
them?
2. Do the Excel files have to be kept in the same folder on the
computer/system in order for the links to work?

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, to /merge/ into a pre-existing table layout with a fixed cell layout
(column 1 with 20 cells, column 2 with 10 cells etc., unless I have
misunderstood?) is difficult because Word wants to fill the cells row by
row, i.e. row1col1, row1col2, row1col3, row2col1 etc. So you would really
have to rearrange your data in that sequence.

In this case it might be easier not to use a merge, but to copy/paste
special|paste link each cell into your table. In fact, if you select the
first cell you want to use in Excel, then edit copy, then edit|paste,
paste
link (use a plain text or rtf format) into word, then use Alt-F9 to
reveal
the pasted LINK field code in Word. You should be able to copy the LINK
field and modify the workbook/sheet/cell reference for each cell in your
table.

(You'd need Excel on the machine that's going to do the "merge" to do it
that way).

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
The data sources are Excel spreadsheets.

--
JEverhart


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is/are the data sources?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.

I would suggest it would have to be an option if there are no better
options.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"JEverhart" wrote in message
...
I have a Word doc that has a table with 3 columns. The first column
has
20
rows, the second 10 rows, and the third 4 rows. Each column needs
to
pull
information from a separate data source (3 total). How can I do
this?

Copy/paste to put all the data sources together is not an option.
Too
many
to deal with.
Thanks!
--
JEverhart