Hi amanda,
In the mail merge FAQ on my website you'll find a summary of the "one-to-many"
(complex document) problem with links to sample files/articles. Look at the one
for using a DATABASE field.
I am creating a document for a nonprofit that will create letters for our
donors and show a summary of their donations. I've created a Directory Mail
Merge that prints a letter for each donor and uses an IF statement to
detemine whether to print another donation for the current donor, or move on
to the next donor. This worked well on just a text basis, but I would like
to print 4 different fields from my database for each donation, and really
need a table format to pull this off attractively.
The problem is that I need to create a new row in an existing table for each
additional donation, and my IF statement does not see quotation marks from
inside a table. How can I instruct Word to create a new row?
For more info on the IF statement structure, my document was created as per
this Word article example: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/294686
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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