[access-uk] Re: problem with mail merge wizard
- From: David W Wood <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:24:30 +0100
Justin
I can't tell you of a more straight forward way of achieving your goal,
but can help regarding 'deliminators'.
These are the characters which are between the various fields in your
data source, and considering your problem it may require that you re-
edit it.
deliminators are usually tabs, spaces or commas.
e.g.
miss test,1 guess street,anyvillage,sometown,county,code,
it is also important that the headers are in the same format and on the
row immediately above the first entry in your data list.
HTH
David
In message <003601c5d974$99f79320$2b276551@default23iugqs>, Justin R
<mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> Hi everyone,
>
> Don't know if you can help me out but, I'm having serious trouble
> in getting mail merge to work on MS word XP. When I do a mail
> merge at college on, i think is Word 2000, I have no trouble at
> all! It works just fine!
>
> However, seeing as the wizard in Word XP is different I'm stumped.
> Literally.
>
> I'm trying to merge a list of addresses, in word document with a
> letter written in another word document.
>
> When I start the wizard, tell it I want to use the letter I've got
> on screen. Then, I tell it I want to use an existing data source
> to get the addresses I need. I hit on browse, choose the file
> "data source let" in word doc format.
> Then, I get this message.
>
> Header Record Deliminator
> It goes onto say that data must be separate from each other by
> charactors, whatever. I don't even know what a deliminator is! I
> don't get any of this at college! and I do exaclty the same thing
> as I'm doing here. Except that XP's mail merge wizard is different
> to older versions. when i just click OK, I have a list of
> recipients to edit, select etc.
>
> I just don't know what to do. Is there any way of turning off the
> wizard and doing the mail merge the old way?
>
> Any answers, please let me know.
>
> thanks,
>
> Justin
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