First Record's Letter Missing after Letter Merge

[TS in FL]

I am using Word 2002.

After I merge a letter from either Excel or Access, my first record is
missing from the merged document, i.e., if I tell it to merge records 1
through 10, the merged document contains letters for records 2 through 10.
This occurs whether I use the edit mail merge recipients list, and only check
records 1 thru 10, or whether I select "merge to new document" on the toolbar
and tell it to merge from 1 to 10.

BTW, there are no NEXT or NEXT RECORD fields in the main document.

Why is this??

 

[Graham Mayor]

Does your data file use the first record as a header?

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[TS in FL]

In the Excel spreadsheet, the first row was the field labels (First Name,
Last Name, etc.). I no longer use that document, by the way. I imported
the data into an Access database, so the data now comes from a select query
that is linked to the main merge document. But merging from either
datasource produced the same problem.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?VFMgaW4gRkw=?=,

I am using Word 2002.

After I merge a letter from either Excel or Access, my first record is
missing from the merged document, i.e., if I tell it to merge records 1
through 10, the merged document contains letters for records 2 through 10.
This occurs whether I use the edit mail merge recipients list, and only check
records 1 thru 10, or whether I select "merge to new document" on the toolbar
and tell it to merge from 1 to 10.

And if you let it merge ALL records? Are you able to VIEW the first record in
the main merge document?

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

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