Possible to perform merge only on a given section?

[Robin Tucker]

Hi,

I have documents that are structured CONTENTS, RECORDS, SUMMARY. I would
like to perform a different mail merge on each section, ie. perhaps a
different data source for RECORDS and SUMMARY. I don't want to have to
break the document up into one document for each section, perform a merge on
each one and then join the documents again. Is it possible to set a range
for a mail merge?

Thanks for any help you can give me.



Rob

 

[Doug Robbins]

No, it is not possible. You will have to split the document into sections,
execute the merge and then recombine the sections.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Russ]

Doug,
could you tell me how to "split the documents" and execut the merge? what
do you mean by split, do it in sperate document?
Russ

 

[Doug Robbins]

You had indicated that you wanted to merge different sections of the
document with different data sources. The only way that you can do that is
be splitting the document into separate parts for each data source.

I know that you said that is not what you want to do, but it is the only
way.

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[Robin Tucker]

Hey not to confuse "Rob" with "Russ". I originally asked if I indeed needed
to "split" the document up. For the benefit of "Russ", I intend to do this
on a "per-section" basis. I.e. for each section, create a new document
containing that section only, perform the mail merge with the data source on
that section. When all sections have been mail-merged, combine the
resulting documents together.

Another of my posts below asks how to copy sections from on document to
another. The solution given in the microsoft.public.word.vba.general
newsgroup was:

"Look up the FormattedText property in the Word VBA Help. There is a code
sample that describes what you need to do."

This of course refers to automation/vba. I'm not sure if you want to do
things this way.