merged document not recognizing carriagereturn in source document header

[alr]

I am creating a catalog using Word's mail merge. Source document is a tab delimited file (using Mac's Text Edit). The Source document includes a header at the top. It seems that when merging, Word doesn't recognize the carriage return between the header and the first record. Since the source document is in Text Edit, is it appropriate to force a paragraph in Text Edit by either inserting special character pilcrow (paragraph mark), or by selecting insert > paragraph break ?

 

[John McGhie]

That's correct: A carriage return will not be recognised as a record
delimiter. Use a paragraph mark (Carriage return + New Line).

I can't remember whether this happened because you have Text Edit set to
"Use Unix line-endings" or whether you set it to "NOT use Unix line endings"

I am creating a catalog using Word's mail merge. Source document is a tab
delimited file (using Mac's Text Edit). The Source document includes a header
at the top. It seems that when merging, Word doesn't recognize the carriage
return between the header and the first record. Since the source document is
in Text Edit, is it appropriate to force a paragraph in Text Edit by either
inserting special character pilcrow (paragraph mark), or by selecting insert >
paragraph break ?

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[Phillip Jones]

That's correct: A carriage return will not be recognised as a record
delimiter. Use a paragraph mark (Carriage return + New Line).

I can't remember whether this happened because you have Text Edit set to
"Use Unix line-endings" or whether you set it to "NOT use Unix line endings"

Most likely the second; because, Mac when you hit return or enter (on an
extended keyboard) actually end the line and drops the cursor one line
down. Because Macs(using OSX)are UNIX based they use the UNIX honor the
Line end-new line system.

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