Made a mistake but how to edit???

[Rog]

I am sure I am missing something here.

I am doing address labels in Word 2000.

When I close the Mail Merge Helper it creates the template showing the field
names and positions for the whole page. If I want to edit the layout it
seems that I have to go through the entire process in Mail Merger Helper
again or edit ach label individually.

Is there a way of going back to the original field layout in Mail Merge
Helper, making the change and the recreating the whole page?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Rog,

I am sure I am missing something here.

No, you're not missing anything. Your observation is correct and, in Word 2000
and earlier that's exactly what you have to do.

One of the (few) things I really like about Word 2002/2003 mail merge is the
way you can "propagate labels" - update all the labels based on the example in
the first one.

I am doing address labels in Word 2000.

When I close the Mail Merge Helper it creates the template showing the field
names and positions for the whole page. If I want to edit the layout it
seems that I have to go through the entire process in Mail Merger Helper
again or edit ach label individually.

Is there a way of going back to the original field layout in Mail Merge
Helper, making the change and the recreating the whole page?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Rog]

Ok, thanks Cindy - at least I can stop trying now

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Rog,

at least I can stop trying now

Yeah, I know the feeling

The only other thing you can do is copy the contents of the
first cell, paste into the second - WITHOUT removing the
NEXT field at the beginning of this cell. The copy/paste
cell 2 into all the other cells. Depending on how much
formatting work you've done, this may or may not be faster
than starting over with setup again.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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