Need help in creating a client directory mail merge in Word 2003. I have an
excel database full of field I want to incorporate into the merge. However,
I cannot figure out how I can get CLIENT NAMES and all the CONTACTS
pertaining to that CLIENT NAME to stay all together and then when the new
client name comes up, I want it to start on a new page and continue until all
the contact information has been listed for each person.

ABC Corporation
123 Street
Anytown, NJ 11111

John Doe
phone #
Fax #
Email

Carol Pane
phone #
Fax #
Email

Then I want a page break and have the next company start at the top of a new
page and have each contact and its information continue for each.

Can someone help me with this?

Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" 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

How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;302665



Or, if you create a Catalog (on in Word XP and later, it's called Directory)
type mailmerge main document with the mergefields in the cells of a one row
table in the mailmerge main document with the keyfield in the first cell in
the row and then execute that merge to a new document and then run the
following macro, it will create separate tables with the records for each
key field in them. With a bit of further development, you may be able to
get it to do what you want.

' Macro to create multiple items per condition in separate tables from a
directory type mailmerge

Dim source As Document, target As Document, scat As Range, tcat As Range
Dim data As Range, stab As Table, ttab As Table
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, n As Long
Set source = ActiveDocument
Set target = Documents.Add
Set stab = source.Tables(1)
k = stab.Columns.Count
Set ttab = target.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, numrows:=1,
numcolumns:=k - 1)
Set scat = stab.Cell(1, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
ttab.Cell(1, 1).Range = scat
j = ttab.Rows.Count
For i = 1 To stab.Rows.Count
Set tcat = ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range
tcat.End = tcat.End - 1
Set scat = stab.Cell(i, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
If scat tcat Then
ttab.Rows.Add
j = ttab.Rows.Count
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range = scat
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = True
ttab.Rows.Add
ttab.Cell(j + 1, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = False
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
Else
ttab.Rows.Add
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
End If
Next i


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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"zachmattsmom" wrote in message
...
Need help in creating a client directory mail merge in Word 2003. I have
an
excel database full of field I want to incorporate into the merge.
However,
I cannot figure out how I can get CLIENT NAMES and all the CONTACTS
pertaining to that CLIENT NAME to stay all together and then when the new
client name comes up, I want it to start on a new page and continue until
all
the contact information has been listed for each person.

ABC Corporation
123 Street
Anytown, NJ 11111

John Doe
phone #
Fax #
Email

Carol Pane
phone #
Fax #
Email

Then I want a page break and have the next company start at the top of a
new
page and have each contact and its information continue for each.

Can someone help me with this?