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template for starting a biography?
Any templates for a biography? Just a short biography not a book....
3 6/23/2007 6:24:01 PM
Word 2007: Tables and Mail-Merge
how to keep whole 2-row table together at page break with mail-merge in directory type document. Merge fields are in table, therefore table is repeated with each record. Data source is an Excel 2007 file....
2 6/23/2007 1:30:48 AM
SSN format in word merge
I'm trying to merge an SSN from Excel into a Word merge doc. and it cuts off the leading 0(s). Can anyone help?...
2 6/23/2007 1:21:46 AM
unable to delete orphaned close field brace in first page footer
In Word 2003, users of a rather large mailmerge document reported that it would preview and print out a right curly brace in the footer of the first page. More investigation revealed that the right curly brace is an orphaned close field brace which is situated beside the close field brace of an IF construct as follows: { IF { MERGEFIELD Sender } = "condition" "condition true" "condit...
4 6/22/2007 11:35:40 PM
Mail Merge Word 2003
I have created a mail merge from an Excel file and all is fine except that one field is an "amount" which is in the Excel data base as having two digits after the decimal point. When I merge, I get four digits after the decimal. I have reformated the Excel calculation and formatted again to have two digits, and it still comes out as four. Anyone have an idea how to fix this?...
5 6/22/2007 7:42:01 PM
Merging pictures along with data...
I'm currently working on a database of employees for my supervisor. I'm making individual profiles of employees by using the mail-merge feature in Microsoft word to take the data from the spreadsheet and filter it into word documents. This part is going wonderfully... BUT, my supervisor told me today that he wants ID pictures included with each profile. Is there a way for me to insert a ...
13 6/22/2007 7:03:06 PM
E-Mail merge help.
I work for a fulfillment comapnay who processes orders for several clients. Most of what I do is mergeing mailing lists to letters which get shiped with items. However they want me to start sending e-mail to customers whos orders are on backorder. I have developed a merge letter which i want to use and have it working with e-mail merge. However I need to find a way to send these e-mails ...
2 6/22/2007 6:02:42 PM
Future Date - Word 2000
Hello, I have to input a future date in a document. I got a peice of code from this forum a little whhile back to do it however, it doesn't format with the date ordinals. Does anyone have any suggestions to add the ordinals to the code please? Thanks, Chris ...
5 6/22/2007 1:02:01 PM
Merging Access data into a Word document
Is it possible to take the data from Access, and merge it into just one Word document? I wish to create a form letter addressed to one person, using the data that I have stored in an Access database. However, the only options I have discovered so far are to either create a mass-mailing, or to create a poorly formatted report in Access, then use the "publish it" function. This outputs aga...
17 6/22/2007 5:35:36 AM
Merge selected records
I have one Word database and one main document. I want to merge three different types of letters using the same database. The fiield names that identify the type of letter are: 'letter_a' 'letter_b' and 'letter_c'. Any suggestions on the preferred field code I should use and the information I should include for the parameters? Appreciate your help, Judy...
4 6/21/2007 9:04:29 PM
how do I mail merge data from excel as formated
I have a very large spreadsheet I am trying to merge into a word document. When I merge, all of my dollar amount come up with no $ sign, no thousand separater, and either no ending zeros, or more than 2 decimal places. I am not sure what to do. I am in a real time bind, if anyone can help. thanks, Lulu...
3 6/21/2007 7:56:01 PM
how do I mail merge data from excel as formated
I have a very large spreadsheet I am trying to merge into a word document. When I merge, all of my dollar amount come up with no $ sign, no thousand separater, and either no ending zeros, or more than 2 decimal places. I am not sure what to do. I am in a real time bind, if anyone can help. thanks, Lulu...
2 6/21/2007 7:49:53 PM
2007 Merge Data becomes Read-only
I have users who use multiple merge files (Word 97-2003) attached to .doc data sources. Users who have upgraded to Office 2007 now can not save changes to the data source - they receive the message that the data file is read-only, while 2003 users can save data. Does anyone know a solution or workaround for this?...
5 6/21/2007 6:21:00 PM
Mail Merge problems
Hi Everyone, I’ve been working on a mail merge problem for a few weeks and I don’t know what to try any longer. The problem in a nut shell is that the source file is OCCASIONALLY not readable. We have a DDE interface to Word that has been working in a number of environments for years (I know this is old, but it’s also not my decision to update it). We one new customer that is having this i...
2 6/21/2007 5:44:43 PM
Changing From field in a mail merged word document
I am using Word 2002 and Outlook 2002 and am looking to creat a mail merge document to be sent out to 500 users. My question is: Is it possible to change the "From address" that appears on the e-mailed messge? We want to send e-mails to a group of users and have it appear to come from a maile enabled public folder. Thanks for the help....
2 6/21/2007 5:33:33 PM
Word 2007 "Read-Only" error when changing source data
I have two word documents (originally created in word 2000) one is the form and the other is the data contents. When ever I change the data, through the edit recipients wizard, and then close the document, it asks me to save the data source [expected notification]. When I select "YES" to save the data source, I get a message that the data source is read-only. I have followed the direc...
8 6/21/2007 5:16:49 PM
Mailmerge Tools
In Word 2003 and Access 2003 how does the mailmerge "record find" icon lose its functionality? For unknown reason when I use the "find" record button nothing happens and the find box shuts down?? I know the subject record that I ssearched for exists in the data source (a query) having just checked the query. Is this option lost in certain methods of linking the word document to the ac...
1 6/21/2007 4:40:01 PM
Merging Multiple Records in One Document
Hi, I'm trying to replicate something similar to an invoice in a Word document via a mail merge. I'm selecting Directory as the document type and have a datasource with several records of line items. I would like to have some details appear only at the top (e.g. the person who is receving the invoice and their address which are merge fields, along with some static text) and then have...
2 6/21/2007 2:17:49 PM
How do I merge pictures along with data?
I'm currently working on a database of employees for my supervisor. I'm making individual profiles of employees by using the mail-merge feature in Microsoft word to take the data from the spreadsheet and filter it into word documents. This part is going wonderfully... BUT, my supervisor told me today that he wants ID pictures included with each profile. Is there a way for me to insert a ...
2 6/21/2007 1:47:15 PM
clear msfax acivity
How do you delete all the entries in the 1 activity log 2 in box 3 out box...
2 6/21/2007 1:44:30 PM
Mail Merge
Can the final use copy of the mail merge template be protected so that the user can still do the mail merge, but not be able to edit the mail merge document? I'm not referring to the template, but the document that is created based on the template when mailmerge is run....
2 6/21/2007 12:25:04 PM
Merging text with HTML tags as data source into single word docume
Dear all, I have a .doc document and a data source from an oracle database which stores HTML data as text. The front end application has no problem recognizing the HTML tags and would display the HTML texts correctly. But once I tried to merge this HTML text to the Word document, Word would show the HTML tags as is. i.e. <BR>test</BR> instead of a line break before 'test', a ...
3 6/21/2007 9:15:01 AM
Merging Graphic - SIZE problem
I thought I had this problem solved years ago. I am merging pictures using the Included Picture method, e.g. { INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\{ MERGEFIELD logo}" } I received a new logo to replace an earlier one, but it will not size properly. All the pictures (bmp) up till now have displayed approximately the same size, despite have a variety of dimensions. In this case the older ...
2 6/21/2007 6:42:47 AM
How do I fax a document from word 2007?
I want to be able to print a document to FAX but my faxmodem doesn't come up as an optional printer. How do I enable this? ...
3 6/21/2007 5:06:04 AM
Mail merge problem
I have inserted a field into a mail merge document and when I merge / view the document the numerical figure I have chosen ends up being a figure with many decimal points eg 720.234654 instead of 720 as it is in my data source (excel spread sheet) How do you get the figure to just be 720? I am using Word 2003 and excel 2003...
10 6/24/2007 2:57:00 AM
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