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Doug Robbins
 
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I do not know what you did wrong, but I cannot replicate the problem in Word
2003.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Gladys" wrote in message
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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your suggestions but they didn't work. I even tried from a
blank
document using default label selections. I still have the same problem.

I did get it to work by changing by datasource. In excel I made one column
to refer to as "Monday" and another as "Tuesday" instead of all of the
dates
in one field.

It boggles me how it works in 2000 but not in our Latest Greatest Versions


Thanks again for your assitance.

Gladys

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

If the document were set up as a label type mailmerge, then it should
work.
An alternative is to create the mailmerge main documnet as a Directory
type
mailmerge document and just have one table in it and have the dimensions
of
the rows in that table fixed so that it takes up half of the page and
only
one more table will fit on the page. If you want them as separate
tables,
not joined together, have two paragraph returns after the table. With
this
arrangement you will not need a Next Record field.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Gladys" wrote in message
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I am trying to use Word 2003.

I have a datasource set up in Excel showing me every Monday and Tuesday
for
2005.

I've created a Word 2003 document that has two tables on a page (mini
calendars) - In a cell in the table on the top half of page I have the
mergefield and then next record. On the second table I insert the merge
field.

When I merge the records the 1st page looks ok. But on the next page it
repeats the mergefield from the 2nd table, to the area at the top of
the
page.

I tested this in Word 2000 and it works fine.

Here is an Example on how the data is being merged.

1st Page
Top Half - Mergefield = Monday, January 03, 2005
Bottom Half - Mergefield = Tuesday, January 04, 2005

2nd page
Top Half - Mergefield = Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Bottom Half - Mergefield - Monday, January 10, 2005

3rd Page
Top Half - Mergefield = Monday, January 10, 2005
Bottom Half - Mergefield - Tuesday, January 11, 2005


Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions would be very helpful.