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Going crazy. I cannot seem to get the fields in the right place. I ask for
'contact', it produces 'postal_code". I ask for 'city', "province" and it puts province on the next line. It's just doin its own thing. LOl. I have started from scratch at least 4 times. NO idea what I am doing wrong. |
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Are you using the AddressBlock? If so, don't. Insert the fields that you
want to use in the configuration that you want them. If you are merging from Outlook as sounds probable, see the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.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 "Sonia" wrote in message ... Going crazy. I cannot seem to get the fields in the right place. I ask for 'contact', it produces 'postal_code". I ask for 'city', "province" and it puts province on the next line. It's just doin its own thing. LOl. I have started from scratch at least 4 times. NO idea what I am doing wrong. |
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Thanks for the quick response.
No, I am using excel. The coloumn headings are inserted into the document using a drop down list. It DOES inport the data, but not necessarily from the right column, and not in the place that I request it. I tried narrowing down the problem by starting over, and asking in for CONTACT for example, and after the mail merge, what it inported was the Postal code column. Weird eh? I even went so far as to reboot my computer. Nothing works. The merge keeps inporting from the wrong column AND not following my requested locations IE (It displays city, beside address, when I have clearly requested city on the line below address) "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Are you using the AddressBlock? If so, don't. Insert the fields that you want to use in the configuration that you want them. If you are merging from Outlook as sounds probable, see the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.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 "Sonia" wrote in message ... Going crazy. I cannot seem to get the fields in the right place. I ask for 'contact', it produces 'postal_code". I ask for 'city', "province" and it puts province on the next line. It's just doin its own thing. LOl. I have started from scratch at least 4 times. NO idea what I am doing wrong. |
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I think that I have heard that this problem can be caused by a corruption in
the Excel spreadsheet. Try copying the data to a new workbook and try using that as a data source. -- 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 "Sonia" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response. No, I am using excel. The coloumn headings are inserted into the document using a drop down list. It DOES inport the data, but not necessarily from the right column, and not in the place that I request it. I tried narrowing down the problem by starting over, and asking in for CONTACT for example, and after the merge, what it inported was the Postal code column. Weird eh? I even went so far as to reboot my computer. Nothing works. The merge keeps inporting from the wrong column AND not following my requested locations IE (It displays city, beside address, when I have clearly requested city on the line below address) "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Are you using the AddressBlock? If so, don't. Insert the fields that you want to use in the configuration that you want them. If you are merging from Outlook as sounds probable, see the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.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 "Sonia" wrote in message ... Going crazy. I cannot seem to get the fields in the right place. I ask for 'contact', it produces 'postal_code". I ask for 'city', "province" and it puts province on the next line. It's just doin its own thing. LOl. I have started from scratch at least 4 times. NO idea what I am doing wrong. |
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