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Setting Default Customize Address List Field
How can I save the custom address list fields so that when i create a new
Mail Merge I don't have to "customize" every time? When doing a mail merge their is an option to customize the fields where the Title, First name, Last name, Address 1, Address 2 is, etc. I want to delete Title, Company, Country and Add Account Number, Case Number. That is fine but the next time i do a mail merge I don't want to have to go through this again with deleting and adding the same fields I always use. Would this be some kind of template embedded somewhere? Thank you for your help. |
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Setting Default Customize Address List Field
Sounds like you maybe using the AddressBlock field. Instead of doing that,
just use the individual merge fields that you want in the configuration that you want them. -- 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 "Tomee" wrote in message ... How can I save the custom address list fields so that when i create a new Mail Merge I don't have to "customize" every time? When doing a mail merge their is an option to customize the fields where the Title, First name, Last name, Address 1, Address 2 is, etc. I want to delete Title, Company, Country and Add Account Number, Case Number. That is fine but the next time i do a mail merge I don't want to have to go through this again with deleting and adding the same fields I always use. Would this be some kind of template embedded somewhere? Thank you for your help. |
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Setting Default Customize Address List Field
Hi doug, i am trying to figure out if it mail be the location of the
datasource that is messing this up. Thank you for your help, i will look up address block also and post if the customer still isn't able to get the custom address field. thank you again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Sounds like you maybe using the AddressBlock field. Instead of doing that, just use the individual merge fields that you want in the configuration that you want them. -- 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 "Tomee" wrote in message ... How can I save the custom address list fields so that when i create a new Mail Merge I don't have to "customize" every time? When doing a mail merge their is an option to customize the fields where the Title, First name, Last name, Address 1, Address 2 is, etc. I want to delete Title, Company, Country and Add Account Number, Case Number. That is fine but the next time i do a mail merge I don't want to have to go through this again with deleting and adding the same fields I always use. Would this be some kind of template embedded somewhere? Thank you for your help. |
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Setting Default Customize Address List Field
When you save your address list, it is either saved in a special Acccess
..mdb format (Word 2002 or later) or in a format you define (typically a table in a Word .doc ) in Word 2000 and earlier. Assuming it's Word 2002 or later, if you create the fields you want then save the database as a .mdb, all you really need to do for each new address list is make a new copy of that .mdb and specify that as your data source in your new Mail merge main document- I think! (You may need to insert one record to save the .mdb successfully - I haven't tried it.) I don't know of any other way to specify the fields you want as "the defaults" -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tomee" wrote in message ... Hi doug, i am trying to figure out if it mail be the location of the datasource that is messing this up. Thank you for your help, i will look up address block also and post if the customer still isn't able to get the custom address field. thank you again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Sounds like you maybe using the AddressBlock field. Instead of doing that, just use the individual merge fields that you want in the configuration that you want them. -- 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 "Tomee" wrote in message ... How can I save the custom address list fields so that when i create a new Mail Merge I don't have to "customize" every time? When doing a mail merge their is an option to customize the fields where the Title, First name, Last name, Address 1, Address 2 is, etc. I want to delete Title, Company, Country and Add Account Number, Case Number. That is fine but the next time i do a mail merge I don't want to have to go through this again with deleting and adding the same fields I always use. Would this be some kind of template embedded somewhere? Thank you for your help. |
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