Using next field in text box

[Michelle]

My documentis a single page with 4 merged records per
page. It is a simple name/address thing meant to print
out on an 8.5 x 11 page which will become 4 postcards. I
created text boxes for my name, address fields and
inserted next from the Word field list before the 2nd,
3rd and 4th places where it should merge. I keep getting
an error that you can't use Next in a header, footer etc.
Can't I somehow tell Word that my text boxes are not
headers or footers.. etc.?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Michelle,

Use a table rather than textboxes.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Michelle,

As Doug says, a table would be more suited. But since you
already have the text boxes, go into the Format textbox
dialog box, the Textbox tab, and convert the textboxes to
Frames. NEXT should work fine in frames

My documentis a single page with 4 merged records per
page. It is a simple name/address thing meant to print
out on an 8.5 x 11 page which will become 4 postcards. I
created text boxes for my name, address fields and
inserted next from the Word field list before the 2nd,
3rd and 4th places where it should merge. I keep getting
an error that you can't use Next in a header, footer etc.
Can't I somehow tell Word that my text boxes are not
headers or footers.. etc.?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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