Re: Novice needs help with cosolidating in mailmerge document

Did you use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters {}?

You might also take a look at :

http://cornell.veplan.net/article.aspx?&a=3815

as it gives an explanation of the function of each part of the field
construction.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Jae" <Jae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your response. I keyed in your example, but unfortunately I
still can't get it to consolidate the employee/sales information onto one
letter. What do you think I could be wrong? I'm using Word 2003,
creating a
mail merge directory.

Thanks again.

Jae


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Jae,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211303 for the principles.

However, if your data source is an Excel file, I'd suggest basing your
code on the following (which will work the same with other
data sources too) for the second example:

{QUOTE{IF{MERGESEQ}= 1 {SET Place ""}}"{IF{MERGEFIELD City}<> {Place}
"{IF{MERGESEQ}= 1 "" {QUOTE 12}}{MERGEFIELD City}{SET Place
{MERGEFIELD City}}<ENTER>
<ENTER>
"}{MERGEFIELD Employee}<TAB>{MERGEFIELD Sales}<ENTER>
"}
<ENTER>
or
{QUOTE{IF{MERGESEQ}= 1 {SET Place ""}}"{IF{MERGEFIELD City}<> {Place}
"{IF{MERGESEQ}= 1 "" "
----------------------------Page Break--------------------------------
"}{MERGEFIELD City}{SET Place {MERGEFIELD City}}<ENTER>
<ENTER>
"}{MERGEFIELD Employee}<TAB>{MERGEFIELD Sales}<ENTER>
"}<ENTER>

With the field coded provided in all the examples in the KB article, an
extra line is inserted between records for the same location
when using an Excel workbook as the data source.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Jae" <Jae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a data table which contains multiple records for the same
individual.
Is it possible in the mail merge process to send the one individual one
letter containing different types of information? For instance, I'd
like to
send a mail merge letter to Mr. X containing purchase information he
has made
throughout the year. How do I go about making sure Word does not
create
multiple merged letters for Mr. X?

Confusing? Hopefully not.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.





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