Re: Help with mail merging using a Text File

From: Steven Moschidis (s.moschidis_at_mail.som.surrey.ac.uk)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:41:45 +0100

Hi Cindy,
Thank you for your reply!

Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
> 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

could you please forward a link for this KB article?

> 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).
I have tried this and I am afraid it doesnt work... (I tried with
triplicate as well...)

The single record result sets still require me to click on ok and some
multiple record result sets pause until I verify the delimiters (I still
have not been able to figure out the pattern for the multiple record
result sets)

As you can understand even if the suggested solution worked I would
still be looking for a way to handle that specific dialog in case it
showed up in the future when the system is out of testing...

I would really appreciate any further thoughts you might have on this.
What really puzzles me is the fact that there is no apparent way to
programmatically manipulate the dialog (if im missing something please
correct me!!!)

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

Thank you for your help and time!

Kind Regards,
Steven C Moschidis MBCS