How to reference a field's te once if duplicated in successive rec

[Frustrated]

Hi,

I'd like to use the field "country" as a title for a list of organizations
from that specific country, and have it update the title only when a new
country is encountered. I'm using a catalog merge, but cannot figure out how
to get the country, such as "USA" to print only once over the list of
organizations, and then print a new country title when encountered during the
merge.

I've tried using a bookmark reference and the "if - then -else" field, but
have not figured out a solution.

Can somebody help?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Doug Robbins]

This macro run on the catalog may do what you want:

' Macro to create multiple items per condition in separate tables from a
directory type mailmerge

Dim source As Document, target As Document, scat As Range, tcat As Range
Dim data As Range, stab As Table, ttab As Table
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, n As Long
Set source = ActiveDocument
Set target = Documents.Add
Set stab = source.Tables(1)
k = stab.Columns.Count
Set ttab = target.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, numrows:=1,
numcolumns:=k - 1)
Set scat = stab.Cell(1, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
ttab.Cell(1, 1).Range = scat
j = ttab.Rows.Count
For i = 1 To stab.Rows.Count
Set tcat = ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range
tcat.End = tcat.End - 1
Set scat = stab.Cell(i, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
If scat <> tcat Then
ttab.Rows.Add
j = ttab.Rows.Count
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range = scat
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = True
ttab.Rows.Add
ttab.Cell(j + 1, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = False
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
Else
ttab.Rows.Add
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
End If
Next i


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Frustrated]

Wow...thanks! I will try this out and get back to the listserv

 

[Frustrated]

Hi Doug,

I tried the macro, but there was a "compilation error" at the "set ttab = "
line. Couldn't figure out what to do from there!

Thanks again,

"Frustrated"

 

[Doug Robbins]

The following needs to all on one line

Set ttab = target.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, numrows:=1,
numcolumns:=k - 1)

The email program inserts line breaks that you will need to remove in the
visual basic editor

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP