[mso] Re: Word Merge
- From: "GLENDA WELLS" <gwells58@xxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:17:03 -0400
I suppose that works if the result is just one document in the merge but
generally there will be hundreds. I'd hate to have to do this manual step
for each one, every time I do a mail merge. I was hoping there was a switch
maybe or something programmatic that could be done?
>From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [mso] Re: Word Merge
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:09:54 -0400
>
>Turn on your hidden paragraph marks in Word and see what's between the
>words
>(a space, a tab, etc.) ... Then select all the text and go to the Table
>menu
>and choose Convert> Text to Table. Choose to make it one column and use
>whatever you saw between your words as your delimiter.
>
>Linda F. Johnson
>Linda's Computer Stop
>Author, MOS: Excel 2003 Study Guide, published by John Wiley and Sons
>http://personal-computer-tutor.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of GLENDA WELLS
>Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:49 AM
>To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [mso] Word Merge
>
>Hi All.
>
>This topic for our Word experts may have been around before but I can't
>seem
>
>to find any reference.
>
>I have a text file that I'm merging to Word. One of the fields has
>multiple
>
>values. Instead of displaying/printing the values in one line, I'd like to
>put them in a column.
>
>Example:
>
>What I get now:
>apple orange peach pear
>
>What I want:
>apple
>orange
>peach
>pear
>
>Here's what the file looks like
>first, last, street1, city, st, zip, fruit
>
>thanks in advance. /gl
>
>
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