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Mail merging into a word document.
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Is there a way I can use some sort of lookup function from word into Excel when I am mail merging. Basically I have an Excel spreadsheet (AandR.XLS) that is generated by another application the Excel spreadsheet (AandR.XLS) is overwritten every time this other application runs. I mail merge most of the data in word using the above excel spreadsheet (AandR.xls) as the data source, except a set of values that I need to lookup in another excel spreadsheet (HOD.xls). I cannot incorporate data from HOD.xls into AandR.xls as the AandR.xls file is overwritten each time my external application runs. So is there a clever way in Word that I can use lookup into the HOD.xls using one of the mail-merged fields as the basis of the lookup. Many thanks in advance. |
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No, but using Access you could set up links to the Excel Spreadsheets and
then use a Query to combine the information for use as a mailmerge datasource. -- 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 "Raj" . wrote in message ... Hi Is there a way I can use some sort of lookup function from word into Excel when I am mail merging. Basically I have an Excel spreadsheet (AandR.XLS) that is generated by another application the Excel spreadsheet (AandR.XLS) is overwritten every time this other application runs. I mail merge most of the data in word using the above excel spreadsheet (AandR.xls) as the data source, except a set of values that I need to lookup in another excel spreadsheet (HOD.xls). I cannot incorporate data from HOD.xls into AandR.xls as the AandR.xls file is overwritten each time my external application runs. So is there a clever way in Word that I can use lookup into the HOD.xls using one of the mail-merged fields as the basis of the lookup. Many thanks in advance. |
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