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Tommy - 20 Nov 2003 13:37 GMT

I have created a form letter that I want to insert the
same mergefield in it at two different locations and have
mail merge return two different recipients. Example: the
mergefield name is "lastname" in one location I want the
last name of Jones and in the other location the last
name of Smith, how can this be done?

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Peter Jamieson - 20 Nov 2003 18:16 GMT

It is difficult to answer this question withut knowing how mailmerge is
supposed to know where to get each "lastname" from. How is the second one
related to the first? Is it the name in the next record in the data source?

If each letter has some fields that come from record n, and some that come
from record n+1, then you need to insert a { NEXT } field (<<Next record>>)
field somewhere in the letter. If all the fields from record n come first,
locating the { NEXT } field is straightforward.

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Peter Jamieson - Word MVP

> I have created a form letter that I want to insert the
> same mergefield in it at two different locations and have
> mail merge return two different recipients. Example: the
> mergefield name is "lastname" in one location I want the
> last name of Jones and in the other location the last
> name of Smith, how can this be done?

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