Word does not really have the ability to do such "multiple items per
condition" merges, especially directly to email. I think the only way to
achieve what you are after would be to use a purpose-specific VBA method.
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Hope this helps.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"JEG" <eyankee[ at ]nospam.aol.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] >I am trying to do an email merge to email authors about their articles. In > my data file, there is one record per article and sometimes an author will > have written several articles. If I do a straight email merge, the author > would get a different email for each article - but I want each author to > get just ONE email which would list all of their articles. > > I have tried using the suggestions about duplicate records but that only > seems to work for merging to Word document -- as you have to set up your > document as a Directory (or catalog). This doesn't work for email merge. > Here are the links I was using: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211303> and > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302665.> > Is there a way to do this same sort of thing but merging to email? I'm > using Word 2003. > Thanks so much. > Jackie >
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