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Mail merge fields at the bottom of the page
I have a fairly simple mail merge. The data source is a text file. Each
record in the text file contains some of the information. I have everything working fine except when it comes to putting the subtotal, tax, total at the bottom of the form. This information is in the text file but will not display. If I move these specific fields to the top of the merge document, before all the detail lines, the information displays perfectly. It looks like when Word hits the end of the file, which it does when it has completed the detail portion, it can't find the data it needs to put these last few items on the form. Has anyone run across this before and more importantly, how did you work around it. FYI -- Word 2000 TIA, Gilley |
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Sounds like you are probably trying to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do: 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 http://www.knowhow.com/Guides/Compou...poundMerge.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Gilley" wrote in message ... I have a fairly simple mail merge. The data source is a text file. Each record in the text file contains some of the information. I have everything working fine except when it comes to putting the subtotal, tax, total at the bottom of the form. This information is in the text file but will not display. If I move these specific fields to the top of the merge document, before all the detail lines, the information displays perfectly. It looks like when Word hits the end of the file, which it does when it has completed the detail portion, it can't find the data it needs to put these last few items on the form. Has anyone run across this before and more importantly, how did you work around it. FYI -- Word 2000 TIA, Gilley |
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Sounds like you are probably trying to perform a "multiple items per condition (=key field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do: 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 http://www.knowhow.com/Guides/Compou...poundMerge.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Gilley" wrote in message ... I have a fairly simple mail merge. The data source is a text file. Each record in the text file contains some of the information. I have everything working fine except when it comes to putting the subtotal, tax, total at the bottom of the form. This information is in the text file but will not display. If I move these specific fields to the top of the merge document, before all the detail lines, the information displays perfectly. It looks like when Word hits the end of the file, which it does when it has completed the detail portion, it can't find the data it needs to put these last few items on the form. Has anyone run across this before and more importantly, how did you work around it. FYI -- Word 2000 TIA, Gilley |
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