Re: Mail merge queries: Word 07

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Hi Boppy,

You may do better to run the merge with only one record per page, then change the section breaks created by the merge process to column breaks afterwards. You can use Find/Replace for this, where:
Find Text = "^b"
Replacement Text = "^n"

Cheers
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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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"Boppy" <therealboppy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b7a5d4d8-d358-44f8-86e3-e18618841d9f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi guys, I am doing a mail merge with two A6 pages per A4 page (they
will be the inside pages on some cards I have pre-printed). Because I
want two letters per page, I have inserted a Continuous Section Break
rather than a page break.

How can I have the merge engine treat a section break as a page break
as far as merge data goes? My first attempt has Dear Mark and Dear
Mark on the same page, whereas it should be Dear Mark at top and Dear
Nina at bottom.

The other problem is filtering my merge data by date. This is a
screenshot of the error I get when trying to filter by Entered date,
which as you can see clearly matches what I have typed:
http://i30.tinypic.com/2uz40h4.jpg
Is there a particular format Word wants us to put dates in?

Thanks in advanace to anyone who can save my sanity and help me finish
this mailout before everyone's birthday has been and gone :)

B

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