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Mail merge 2000, 2003 difference...
Hugo 5/9/2007 11:04:01 PM
Hi,

I am using a CSV generated by another company and the CSV has many
address fields including Name1 and Name2. When using Mail merge 2000, I
specified that they should be on a separate line and if Name2 was blank, Word
2000 would ignore it and place the rest of the address info below Name1. Now
I want to do the same in Word 2003. In 2003 the task pane (in step 3 of 6)
has an item called Address Block which I click on to get the Insert Address
Block dialog box. The dialog box has a button called Match Fields... and I've
tried playing with matching the fields but I haven't hit the right
combination yet to do what I used to do in Word 2000. I figured that someone
has encountered this situation before and could help me out. I haven't given
up trying but first I want to ask if what I'm doing is possible and, if so,
then what are the steps to accomplish this.
Thanks in advance!

Re: Mail merge 2000, 2003 difference...
"Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]DELETECAPSmvps.org> 5/10/2007 4:02:27 AM
Don't use the address block. Use the individual fields as you did in Word
2000. You may find http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm
and http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm helpful in the
transition from 2000 to 2003.

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Hugo wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Hi,
>
> I am using a CSV generated by another company and the CSV has many
> address fields including Name1 and Name2. When using Mail merge 2000,
> I specified that they should be on a separate line and if Name2 was
> blank, Word 2000 would ignore it and place the rest of the address
> info below Name1. Now I want to do the same in Word 2003. In 2003
> the task pane (in step 3 of 6) has an item called Address Block which
> I click on to get the Insert Address Block dialog box. The dialog box
> has a button called Match Fields... and I've tried playing with
> matching the fields but I haven't hit the right combination yet to do
> what I used to do in Word 2000. I figured that someone has
> encountered this situation before and could help me out. I haven't
> given up trying but first I want to ask if what I'm doing is possible
> and, if so, then what are the steps to accomplish this. Thanks in
> advance!


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