Problem with Mail Merge Office 97 vs Office 2000

[aylon]

Hi,

I have a word document which uses a small txt file for Mail Merge,
which worked just fine under Word 97.

I upgraded to Word 2000 and the Mail Merge fails.

I opened the txt file (to be merged) and I saved it as a UTF-8 file.
and the problem was partialy fixed.

I the Word document I have a table with merged data, the result merged file
was a table with shiftted lines,
i.e:
I.D Name
122
233 Joe Koker
Martin Doe

Thank You
Aylon.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Aylon,

Could you copy/paste the corresponding part of the text file into a reply,
please, so that we can see how it's constructed.

And is the main merge document a real TABLE, or a table created by using TABs
for each column? I'm just wondering how you get the ID and Name at the top of
the columns...

I have a word document which uses a small txt file for Mail Merge,
which worked just fine under Word 97.

I upgraded to Word 2000 and the Mail Merge fails.

I opened the txt file (to be merged) and I saved it as a UTF-8 file.
and the problem was partialy fixed.

I the Word document I have a table with merged data, the result merged file
was a table with shiftted lines,
i.e:
I.D Name
122
233 Joe Koker
Martin Doe

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

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