Supression of covering letter in a mailmerge

[JimPNicholls]

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Is it possible to supress specific pages in a mailmerge? I have a datasource setup in excel which amongst other fields, contains a scheme number and member number. The mailmerge contains a covering letter (to the scheme) and the member specific documents (i.e. a statement and illustration). Where more than one member belongs to the same scheme, I would like to print the covering letter once, but print the rest of the mailmerge for each membeer. Can this be done?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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Is it possible to supress specific pages in a mailmerge? I have a

datasource setup in excel which amongst other fields, contains a scheme
number and member number. The mailmerge contains a covering letter (to
the scheme) and the member specific documents (i.e. a statement and
illustration). Where more than one member belongs to the same scheme, I
would like to print the covering letter once, but print the rest of the
mailmerge for each membeer. Can this be done?The answer is certainly "yes", but I'm not quite certain how you're
setting this up. As a catalog? If yes, go to my website's mail merge FAQ
and look at the topic about printing introductory text.

If this is more a one-to-many kind of thing (I sorta think it may be),
then you want to look at the section in "Special Merges" where the basic
approaches are outlined. There are links to articles that explain more
exactly how to go about it. I get the feeling you need the Knowledge
Base article that uses SET and IF fields.

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

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