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How can I change the field order in a mail merge recipient box?
How can I permanently change the field order in a mail merge recipient box?
I can temporarily change it but it always go back to the old order. |
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How can I change the field order in a mail merge recipient box?
Use the data source with a catalog (or in XP and later it is called
directory) type mail merge in the main document of which you insert the merge fields in the desired order into individual cells in a one row table. When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source. Insert a row at the top of the table and into the cells of that row, insert the names of the mergefields. Then, save and use that document as the 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 "JES" wrote in message ... How can I permanently change the field order in a mail merge recipient box? I can temporarily change it but it always go back to the old order. |
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How can I change the field order in a mail merge recipient box?
Word will always resequence certain column names (basically, "Address" type
field names that it recognises, such as City, Firstname etc.) in the Edit Recipients dialog. As far as I know there is no way to force Word to keep your sequence except to avoid using those names. In many cases you could for example put a "_" (underscore) at the beginning of the name, and Word will /probably/ retain your sequence. If that doesn't work and Word sequences in alphabetic order you would need to do something like put "01" at the beginning of the column name you want o appear first, "02" at the beginning of the next one, and so on. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "JES" wrote in message ... How can I permanently change the field order in a mail merge recipient box? I can temporarily change it but it always go back to the old order. |
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