I think that your bigger problem is going to be that you are appear to be
trying to perform a multiple items per condition mailmerge, which is
something that is not possible with a simple mailmerge. See the "Group
Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP Cindy Meister's
website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...faq1.htm#DBPic


Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211303

or at:

http://www.knowhow.com/Guides/Compou...poundMerge.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"mike_mike" wrote in message
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Hi

i standard letter with merge codes
{address}

Dear sir

These companies are in breach..
{mydata}

I want to all the following data into {mydata}
2005 tab Company 1
2006 tab company 2

I am merging from excel how do i get the tabs into word as they seem to be
turning to spaces? I do have them in the excel using char(9) in the source
data ..I do not want to use a list/catalog/directory merge just a standard
letter.