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ilan
Lv 6
ilan asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 7 years ago

Mail Merge in Word?

MailMerge in Word (Next Record Question)?

Anyone know how to jump to the next 7th record? I'm mail merging a document from data in excel, the Next Record rule works perfect BUT I don't want the very next record, I want every 7th record.

Instead of:

Record 1

Record 2

Record 3

I want

Record 1

Record 8

Record 15

Next Record is 1 by 1, I need 7 by 7.

Anyone has any idea how to do this? Very little information online about it.

Thanks very much!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Merge normally advances by a single record. You may be able to add a bunch of dummy « NEXT RECORD » fields, one after the other, to advance through unneeded records without printing anything.

  • 7 years ago

    Try the SkipIf http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/field-...

    Edit: this has an example http://word.tips.net/T000287_Conditional_Processin...

    In your excel datasheet create a new column (if it doesn't already exist) and name it record_no (record number) and from top to bottom do 1-x (where x is your last record in the excel sheet). Then use the skipif function to skip the record if it doesn't equal 1,8,15,22,29,etc.etc.etc.

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