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Kacey - 27 Aug 2007 21:06 GMT

how would you manage this: have data fields (#s, $, text, some calculations)
to appear in a Word contract document and a Word invoice. Should one populate
the other or a separate document to populate both? Is this best use of a
merge or is there something else that would accomplish the same in a less
cumbersome way?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 28 Aug 2007 04:24 GMT

Probably a database application would be more suited to this as it sounds
like you are probably trying to perform a "multiple items per condition
(=key field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the ability to do:

See the "Group Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP
Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq1.htm#DBPic

Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;211303

or

http://cornell.veplan.net/article.aspx?&a=3815

For the number and currency formatting issues, see "Formatting Word fields
with switches" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at :

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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> how would you manage this: have data fields (#s, $, text, some
> calculations)
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> merge or is there something else that would accomplish the same in a less
> cumbersome way?

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