Re: Help with mail merging using a Text File

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From: Cindy M -WordMVP- (C.Meister-C_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:26:52 +0200

Hi Steven,

> my problem is that sometimes (for example when there is only one record
> in the text file) a little dialog box pops up asking me to specify the
> delimiters even though its already got the correct ones in...
>
There's a somewhat obscure Knowledge Base article on this problem. What it
basically comes down to is that Word wants to do its job really well, so
it wants a "pattern confirmation" that the field delimiter it's guessing
is actually the one to use. Since one record + header source isn't enough
for that, the dialog box displays.

What should work is to duplicate the field names in the header source file
(just copy/paste).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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