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Merging 2 or more records into 1 page
Hello
I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" mailmerge. 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 How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;302665 -- 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 "tye" wrote in message oups.com... Hello I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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Tye,
I have a similar problem which I solved by adding a count to the end of each record and using next if to include the next record in the same page if the count was not exceeded. -- Belinda "tye" wrote: Hello I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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Doug, I have been attempting to solve a similar problem using next if and a
count added to the data input file. It has worked once perfectly, but I am now getting what appears to be a bug, in that the failure condition does not move to the next merge document correctly. It prints the last record as many times as I have statements but then starts the next document correctly. I have tried including the count field and that is indeed correct. So next if works if the condition is true but does not do what it says it will if it is false. Any ideas? -- Belinda "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key field)" mailmerge. 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 How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;302665 -- 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 "tye" wrote in message oups.com... Hello I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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Only the suggestions that I have already made.
-- 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 "Belinda" wrote in message ... Doug, I have been attempting to solve a similar problem using next if and a count added to the data input file. It has worked once perfectly, but I am now getting what appears to be a bug, in that the failure condition does not move to the next merge document correctly. It prints the last record as many times as I have statements but then starts the next document correctly. I have tried including the count field and that is indeed correct. So next if works if the condition is true but does not do what it says it will if it is false. Any ideas? -- Belinda "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key field)" mailmerge. 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 How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;302665 -- 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 "tye" wrote in message oups.com... Hello I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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Hi all,
Think that http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;294686 would be of more use, I found it easier to understand and use than any of the other articles. In your case Belinda, I have tried the method you are using and too found it to work well, but also came across the 'bug' you have too ! Thats when I started to use the method in the above article as it required a lot less code and no 'count' fields in the data. If either of you need any more help or guidance, just let me know through this newsgroup. Thanks Badger "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Only the suggestions that I have already made. -- 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 "Belinda" wrote in message ... Doug, I have been attempting to solve a similar problem using next if and a count added to the data input file. It has worked once perfectly, but I am now getting what appears to be a bug, in that the failure condition does not move to the next merge document correctly. It prints the last record as many times as I have statements but then starts the next document correctly. I have tried including the count field and that is indeed correct. So next if works if the condition is true but does not do what it says it will if it is false. Any ideas? -- Belinda "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key field)" mailmerge. 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 How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;302665 -- 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 "tye" wrote in message oups.com... Hello I am sending out a letter that contains information to users. Problem I am having is that some users have 3 or more records from access that need to be displayed in one letter, while other users have only 1 record to display. Right now I am getting 30 letters with some of the letters going to the same user. How can I get mail merge to look at the last name associated with the record and not move onto the next page until a new last name is associated with the new record. Thanks, |
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