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Merge Access Query w/many-to-one relationship
jdgretz 12/13/2008 6:41:01 PM
Here's the problem:
A client needs to send out letters to clients showing open invoices from
their organizations. A Access Report built from a Query does this just fine,
but it's not a Mail-Merged letter.

Master Company Record
Division name
Division invoice
Division invoice
Division invoice
:
Division 2 name
Division 2 invoice
:
Division 2 invoice

Works fine as an Access Report - also the report exports correctly to a
grouped Excel spreadsheet, but with each invoice on a separate line
mail-merge only picks up the first invoice instance. Using the Access query,
I get a separate letter for each invoice - not what the client wants. Client
wants a single letter to each Corporation or master company showing all the
invoices for that master record.

Ideas??

John
Re: Merge Access Query w/many-to-one relationship
"Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 12/14/2008 8:24:28 AM
See How to use mail merge to create a list sorted by category -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294686

Fellow MVP 'macropod' has posted a tutorial on this, with working field
codes and a sample Excel data source, at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=731107

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jdgretz wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Here's the problem:
> A client needs to send out letters to clients showing open invoices
> from their organizations. A Access Report built from a Query does
> this just fine, but it's not a Mail-Merged letter.
>
> Master Company Record
> Division name
> Division invoice
> Division invoice
> Division invoice
> :
> Division 2 name
> Division 2 invoice
> :
> Division 2 invoice
>
> Works fine as an Access Report - also the report exports correctly to
> a grouped Excel spreadsheet, but with each invoice on a separate line
> mail-merge only picks up the first invoice instance. Using the
> Access query, I get a separate letter for each invoice - not what the
> client wants. Client wants a single letter to each Corporation or
> master company showing all the invoices for that master record.
>
> Ideas??
>
> John


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