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Brian Beck
I'm generating correspondence in Word 2003 using a template that grabs data
from an Access database. The letter will be addressed to a superintendent,
but a copy of the letter will also be sent to a district coordinator. It is
easy enough to print an envelope for the superintendent, but sometimes the
district coordinator has a different address then the superintendent, so I
was wanting to also have the district coordinator's address show up in the
letter, only I would make that text hidden and thus it would never print out
in the letter...however, when viewing the letter in Word, I could easily
highlight the district coordinator's address and print an envelope for them.
The problem I'm having is that when I make the merge fields hidden in the
template, the first set of the fields simply don't show up in the created
letter. The template looks like this (they are in a table with 2 columns and
1 row):
«SuperintendentFirstName» «SuperintendentMiddleName»
«SuperintendentLastName» «SuperintendentGenerational», «SuperintendentTitle»
«DistrictName»
«SuperintendentAddress»
«SuperintendentCity», Texas «SuperintendentZipCode»
«DTCFirstName» «DTCMiddleName» «DTCLastName» «DTCGenerational»,
District Testing Coordinator
«DistrictName»
«DTCAddress»
«DTCCity», Texas «DTCZipCode»
Everything in the right column is marked as hidden, but when I perform the
merge, this section:
«DTCFirstName» «DTCMiddleName» «DTCLastName» «DTCGenerational», District
Testing Coordinator
never shows up in the letter...it simply starts out by printing the
DistrictName and proceeds from there.
When I remove the hidden property in the template, everything shows up just
fine in the letter.
Any ideas on how to make this stuff show up in the letter?
-Brian
from an Access database. The letter will be addressed to a superintendent,
but a copy of the letter will also be sent to a district coordinator. It is
easy enough to print an envelope for the superintendent, but sometimes the
district coordinator has a different address then the superintendent, so I
was wanting to also have the district coordinator's address show up in the
letter, only I would make that text hidden and thus it would never print out
in the letter...however, when viewing the letter in Word, I could easily
highlight the district coordinator's address and print an envelope for them.
The problem I'm having is that when I make the merge fields hidden in the
template, the first set of the fields simply don't show up in the created
letter. The template looks like this (they are in a table with 2 columns and
1 row):
«SuperintendentFirstName» «SuperintendentMiddleName»
«SuperintendentLastName» «SuperintendentGenerational», «SuperintendentTitle»
«DistrictName»
«SuperintendentAddress»
«SuperintendentCity», Texas «SuperintendentZipCode»
«DTCFirstName» «DTCMiddleName» «DTCLastName» «DTCGenerational»,
District Testing Coordinator
«DistrictName»
«DTCAddress»
«DTCCity», Texas «DTCZipCode»
Everything in the right column is marked as hidden, but when I perform the
merge, this section:
«DTCFirstName» «DTCMiddleName» «DTCLastName» «DTCGenerational», District
Testing Coordinator
never shows up in the letter...it simply starts out by printing the
DistrictName and proceeds from there.
When I remove the hidden property in the template, everything shows up just
fine in the letter.
Any ideas on how to make this stuff show up in the letter?
-Brian