Re: Choosing a different set of recipients

I would agree about the corruption problem if it were just this one file it
was happening with. But I have a class full of Year 11 pupils who are also
trying to do this. For some it works, and for some it doesn't.

All are on the same network using the same software. There must be
something slightly different about the way in which they are setting up the
merge but I can't identifiy it.

Thanks for all the help anyway, your time is appreciated

Liz

"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have not been able to reproduce the problem either which suggests that
>there may be a minor corruption in either the data file or the merge
>document. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
> I would be inclined to merge all the records into a one row table
> containing all the fields and set the document type to catalog/directory
> then merge to a new document. Add a field title row to the table and use
> that as a merge source.
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> Peter Jamieson wrote:
>> When you go back into the Recipients dialog box, is it definitely the
>> blue arrow that's been greyed, or the All option that appears when
>> you click it? (I haven't been able to reproduce the "Blue arrow goes
>> grey" behaviour here so far).
>>
>> Are you able to click any of the columns and see any of the drop-down
>> options? If so, can you get into the "Advanced..." option and clear
>> out any filtering in there?
>>
>> Peter Jamieson
>>
>> "LizJD" <LizJD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Hi Graham
>>>
>>> I read your article (and bookmarked your very useful site for further
>>> reading later) but as it doesn't cover choosing recipients, it
>>> didn't give me
>>> any clues as to what is going wrong.
>>>
>>> I have a data file in Excel and want to send a personalised memo to
>>> my students using the data in Excel. I need to print them out a
>>> class at a time
>>> to make distribution easier.
>>>
>>> As I mentioned before, having chosen one group, I cannot then get
>>> back all the recipients in order to choose a different group. The
>>> only way I cando that is to reload the data file but that is a
>>> nuisance. Still lost.
>>>
>>> Liz
>>>
>>> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try it again. I updated the page recently and it may have been
>>>> temporarily
>>>> down. You can get this page in PDF format from my downloads page.
>>>>
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>>>> Liz J wrote:
>>>>> "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>> news:uKzYnoaIGHA.1124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Are you using the recipients button on the mergte toolbar or
>>>>>> trying to steer through the tortuous merge wizard? You may find
>>>>>> http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm useful.
>>>>>> You should be able to change the recipients list at will from the
>>>>>> toolbar. --
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using the recipients button on the merge toolbar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the link but it doesn't seem to work for me. It leads
>>>>> to a 'page cannot be displayed' message.
>>>>>
>>>>> Liz
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