Converting Word Perfect merge lists into WORD 2002

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Brenda Lush - 30 Sep 2003 18:42 GMT

Our organization just switched from WP 10 to WORD 2002.
Alot of our files in Wordperfect are merge files - form
and data files for various large mailouts. I can't seem
to convert the list of names from Wordperfect into WORD
2002. I've tried converting the text to a Table first
then creating a data source file in WORD but not working.
Any suggestions?

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Keith - 30 Sep 2003 21:32 GMT

>Our organization just switched from WP 10 to WORD 2002.

My commiserations

>Alot of our files in Wordperfect are merge files - form
>and data files for various large mailouts. I can't seem
>to convert the list of names from Wordperfect into WORD
>2002. I've tried converting the text to a Table first
>then creating a data source file in WORD but not working.
>Any suggestions?

A WP data file can't be coverted directly, Word turns it into a document with each address on a seperate page. The usual trick is to (within WP) merge your data file into a WP table, thus;

Then save the file as a WP document file. Word can then read the file as a Word merge data file (Word use a table as its merge data source).

Or at least that's what's meant to happen. Did you have problems? What were they?

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