Mail-merging Tables

[Pat]

Hello, we have a problem we hope someone can help us with. First of
all, we are working with Word 97 and Office 97 on Windows XP.

We would like to know how to merge Word tables into a Word mail-merge
document.
We have tried several different methods. 1) We tried pasting a Word
table
into a field cell in our mail-merge data-source table. Result: the
Word table would not
paste as a table into one field cell (as we wanted it to), but would
instead paste the Word-table contents into several field cells and
thereby
not be usable. 2) We tried to use the table-creation pencil tool and
draw a Word table inside a mail-merge data-table field cell, but that
wouldn't work either.

Also, would Access 97 possibly work?

We want to merge about 60 Word tables, some with graphics above them,
into our master Word document, to be positioned in separate locations
in this document.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Noah Hahn-Walter
Patrick Tesch

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You cannot have a Word table in a field of a record of a mail merge data
source.

You should however be able to achieve what you are after by including in the
datasource the filenames of the files that contain the tables and then in
the mailmerge main document use an INCLUDETEXT field that references the
filename.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP