I would use a report in Access. It is much easier.
Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" mailmerge.
See the "Multiple items per condition" item under the "Special merges"
section of fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm
Or, if you create a Catalog (on in Word XP and later, it's called
Directory) type mailmerge main document with the mergefields in the cells
of a one row table in the mailmerge main document with the keyfield in the
first cell in the row and then execute that merge to a new document and
then run the following macro, it will create separate tables with the
records for each key field in them. With a bit of further development,
you may be able to get it to do what you want.
' Macro to create multiple items per condition in separate tables from a
directory type mailmerge
Dim source As Document, target As Document, scat As Range, tcat As Range
Dim data As Range, stab As Table, ttab As Table
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, n As Long
Set source = ActiveDocument
Set target = Documents.Add
Set stab = source.Tables(1)
k = stab.Columns.Count
Set ttab = target.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, numrows:=1,
numcolumns:=k - 1)
Set scat = stab.Cell(1, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
ttab.Cell(1, 1).Range = scat
j = ttab.Rows.Count
For i = 1 To stab.Rows.Count
Set tcat = ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range
tcat.End = tcat.End - 1
Set scat = stab.Cell(i, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
If scat <> tcat Then
ttab.Rows.Add
j = ttab.Rows.Count
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range = scat
ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = True
ttab.Rows.Add
ttab.Cell(j + 1, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = False
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
Else
ttab.Rows.Add
For n = 2 To k
Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
data.End = data.End - 1
ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
Next n
End If
Next i
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
Olivier said:
Hello,
I am having a small problem with mailmerge in word.
I have an access database that has the following tables:
name, address, invoice, date
what I would like to have a serial letter that looks like this:
<name>
<address>
Dear Mr. <name>,
Here is a list of all your invoices:
[then there should be a table with all invoices the respective customer
has, e.g.]
<invoice> dated <date>
<invoice> dated <date>
I tried for hours now but was not able to do this. Is this possible? How?
Regards,
Olivier
