mailmerge two records side by side

[Hcoms]

Hello,

I have a mailmerged document that merges from a text file. Is it possible to
display TWO records in ONE row of a word table?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Hcoms,

I have a mailmerged document that merges from a text file. Is it possible to
display TWO records in ONE row of a word table?

If you set up to do a catalog type of mail merge, yes.

If this doesn't give you the result you need, could you please describe in a
bit more detail the result you want to achieve? And please also tell us the
version of Word and type of data source involved.

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

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[Hcoms]

Thank you for your reply

I am using word 2000 and presently i am using the catlog type of merge. My
mail merge consists of a number of items such as title, name and address. As
opposed to have a continous list of records i would like to show records in
pairs , side by side. So instead of having one lot of records ( title,name
and address) after the other i would like on the left hand side of the page
( left hand column in a table) to show the first record ( title,name and
address) and on the right hand side show the next record.
e.g. instead of
record 1
record 2
record 3

Appearing one after the other i would like

record 1 | record 2
record 3 | record 4

Cheers

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

A label type mailmerge will merge the records like that.

Otherwise, a catalog type mail merge with one set of mergefields in ther
first cell of a single row two column table and another set of the same
mergefields in the second cell with a <<Next Record>> field inserted before
the first mergefield in the second cell only.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Hcoms,

I agree with Doug, either a label type or a catalog type would do the trick.
Personally, I might choose the catalog type as then I wouldn't be getting a
section break at the end of each page...

Set up a two row, one-colum table and insert the mergefields.

Now, position the cursor just before the first entry in the second cell, and
then insert a NEXT field from the "Insert Word Field" toolbar button list.

I am using word 2000 and presently i am using the catlog type of merge. My
mail merge consists of a number of items such as title, name and address. As
opposed to have a continous list of records i would like to show records in
pairs , side by side. So instead of having one lot of records ( title,name
and address) after the other i would like on the left hand side of the page
( left hand column in a table) to show the first record ( title,name and
address) and on the right hand side show the next record.
e.g. instead of
record 1
record 2
record 3

Appearing one after the other i would like

record 1 | record 2
record 3 | record 4

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

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

..NET getting to you <g>

I think that you meant "one row, two column"

Regards,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Doug,

..NET getting to you <g>

I think that you meant "one row, two column"

YEP <BG>

Cindy

 

[Hcoms]

Thank you for all your help. What i am doing is fairly complicated in that a
form is displayed in word which depending upon the selection of checkboxes
executes a webpage which is then downloaded as a CVS file to the users hard
drive.
With this CVS file it is combined with another word document , the template
file that i use to create the mail merge document. This is a catolog type
mail merge. What i did thanks to all your advice is to create a table with
one row and two coloumns. In the left hand column i inserted the mailmerge
fields and in the right hand column i inserted nextrecord before the mail
merge fields.
In hindsight ( which if i could bottle i would be a rich man) it is actual
quite simple!

Thank you all again!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Hcoms,

In hindsight ( which if i could bottle i would be a rich man) it is actual
quite simple! Thank you all again!

<BG>Yeah, we'd all be billionaires. Thanks for describing how your app
works, and glad you're up and running!

Cindy Meister