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Hi Graham,
Thanks for responding. I don't understand what you mean. I exported my
data from Entourage Address Book into a .csv file. So it's already in a
table in excel. I'm not sure what you mean by having it as text in Word. I
know how to covert text to table, but I'm not sure how I get the text from
the csv file, or why I would do that?

The problem I'm having is with the merge, there may be something corrupted
with the csv file, but I'm not sure how to correct it.

Confused.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Convert the text to a table in Word and merge again using the table as a
data source.
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


fidelio1st wrote:
[I posted this under my other posting, but felt I should give own
subject, so if answered under other, no need to duplicate, thanks]

I exported my Entourage Address Book to a CSV file. When I do a data
merge, it comes up with an error that says: "Record 16 does not have
the same number as the first row in ContactsExport.csv. Ensure all
the records have the same number of fields."


So I deleted all columns after the last one with a header. I even
deleted row 16 and saved under a different file name, then reopened
in the data merge, and it came up with the same error. (FYI there are
1465 records/rows of contacts)

How do I fix this? Is the csv corrupted? I've tried exporting a
couple different times.