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When doing a mail merge, when I bring up my data source, I get a message for
many, or most, records, saying "Record [record number] has too few data
fields," and I have to manually click through each record I get this message
for. How can I avoid getting error? My mail merge comes out OK, so I don't
know why I'm getting this.
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Without knowing anything about your data file it is difficult to suggest
what the problem might be, but a common reason would be with a comma
delimited file that some of the records have insufficient commas? Convert
the data file to a Word table - see
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm and you should
have fewer problems.

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BlueEyedC wrote:
When doing a mail merge, when I bring up my data source, I get a
message for many, or most, records, saying "Record [record number]
has too few data fields," and I have to manually click through each
record I get this message for. How can I avoid getting error? My
mail merge comes out OK, so I don't know why I'm getting this.



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