Column headers in catalog merge?

[Neil Dittmar]

Hello All,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

Headers
First Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Second Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Third Payment line item
etc...

I was wondering if there was a way to tell Word (either in
the main document or during the merge process) that the
column headers should only be displayed once (ie; not
repeated). If anybody has any information on how to do
this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems

 

[Graham Mayor]

Merge to a new document and then add the extra information you wish to
display.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You have to add them after the merge. It could be done with a macro.

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Neil,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

For a table, you could put a row with column headers in the
HEADER portion of the main merge document. Getting it all
lined up can be a bit tricky, you may need to put that row in
a text box and format it "behind the text".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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