You could probably use the method at
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm also.

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Doug Robbins wrote:
You could use a catalog (or in Word XP and later, it's call
directory) type mailmerge main document with the .csv file as a
datasource. If you put the mergefield names (assuming that there is
a header row in the .csv table) in the cells of a one row table, when
you execute the merge to a new document, the document will contain a
table with one row for each record in the datasource. You could then
copy and paste that table into your document.


Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Pat Dools" wrote in message
...
Due to quality control constraints I am not permitted to use excel
at all, which is making this a challenge.

What I need to do:

I have about 40 different tables, each with different formatting.
Every month I will get data that needs to go into each of these
separate 40 tables
. The data from the old table will have to be deleted and the new
data will
need to go in.

Rather than reconstruct the whole table, I would love to save the
shell (headers/spacing) and just bring in the new data, since the
formatting has to
be really specific.

The statistician will send me a word doc with the data in a comma
delimited
format. Is there anyway to put this data into a table without
having to reformat the table each time?

Many thanks.


"Jezebel" wrote:

Hard to be precise without knowing more about what you need to end
up with,
but you might be better using Excel rather than Word, at least
initially. Excel can read csv data directly, so if you have a
spreadsheet set up with
the columns formatted as you need them, most of the tabulation
formatting can happen automatically.

You can embed the Excel tables in a Word document, if you need to
dress them
up further.




"Pat Dools" wrote in message
...
I have data from a statistician that needs to be put in
specifically formatted tables. She usually sends me that data in
a word document, csv
style and I need to rework that data into a table. Since we might
run and
rerun the data several times over the course of the month and the
specific
formatting for each table is pretty specific, I was wondering if
there
is
anyway to set all of the tables structure and then import the data
into the
body of the tables. My thoughts we to create a template, but I
am not
sure
if that is the way to go.

I am not sure exactly where to post this, or if this can be done.
Thanks
for any guidance you can give me.

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Pat Dools