MailMerge to create table

[Question Boy]

Could someone guide me as to how I can use MailMerge to generate a table?

I have a text file with 3 fields: Description, Response & Sup
I have a Word doc in which I have a Table with 4 columns (ID, Des/Resp.
Date, Sup.) and the Des/Resp row is the split One row for Desc. and 1 row for
Resp.

I am looking to automatically to generate a row in the table for each row in
the text file. The ID is taken care of by formatting & the date is today's
date so also taken care of, I tried using MailMerge but it create a separate
document for each record rather than a ned row in the table. How can I
resolve this?

Thank you,

Qb

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

Change the mail merge main document to a Directory (or if you are using a
version earlier than Word XP, it is called Category) type document. Then
insert the merge fields into the cells of a table in that document. Do not
have anything before or after the table other than the empty paragraph mark
that must follow a table.

When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a
table containing rows of data for each record in the data source.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com