Automated Merge Reports

[Look2TheSky2]

I have a directory style merge document that extracts data from an external
source based on the criteria I select using the add recipients button.

This merged report is run many times in one session with the 12-15 different
individual reports created based on different recipient criteria.

Rather than manually going through the process of changing the recipient
information for eachreport, is there a way I can automate this document, so
that at a push of a button perhaps, all the reports are calculated based on
their individual criteria without any user input?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Sounds like you may be trying to perform a "multiple items per condition
(=key field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do:

See the "Group Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP
Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq1.htm#DBPic


Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;211303

or at:

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


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Look2TheSky2]

Thank you Doug for the help!
This is a bit to technically challenging for me to pursue, so I will
continue to do things the old slow way.