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********Meg - 06 Nov 2007 17:04 GMT
I have a list in excel that contains categories and names.  Some of the
categories are repeated.  Each name has a category associated with it.  Is
there a way to only list the category 1 time, if the following categories
are the same, and then when the category changes it will list that one only
one time, etc.

Office 2003
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Meg

Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 06 Nov 2007 19:32 GMT
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 at:

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

Or, if you create a Catalog (on in Word XP and later, it's called Directory)
type mailmerge main document with the mergefields in the cells of a one row
table in the mailmerge main document with the keyfield in the first cell in
the row and then execute that merge to a new document and then run the
following macro, it will create separate tables with the records for each
key field in them.  With a bit of further development, you may be able to
get it to do what you want.

' Macro to create multiple items per condition in separate tables from a
directory type mailmerge

Dim source As Document, target As Document, scat As Range, tcat As Range
Dim data As Range, stab As Table, ttab As Table
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, n As Long
Set source = ActiveDocument
Set target = Documents.Add
Set stab = source.Tables(1)
k = stab.Columns.Count
Set ttab = target.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, numrows:=1,
numcolumns:=k - 1)
Set scat = stab.Cell(1, 1).Range
scat.End = scat.End - 1
ttab.Cell(1, 1).Range = scat
j = ttab.Rows.Count
For i = 1 To stab.Rows.Count
   Set tcat = ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range
   tcat.End = tcat.End - 1
   Set scat = stab.Cell(i, 1).Range
   scat.End = scat.End - 1
   If scat <> tcat Then
       ttab.Rows.Add
       j = ttab.Rows.Count
       ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range = scat
       ttab.Cell(j, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = True
       ttab.Rows.Add
       ttab.Cell(j + 1, 1).Range.Paragraphs(1).PageBreakBefore = False
       For n = 2 To k
           Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
           data.End = data.End - 1
           ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
       Next n
   Else
       ttab.Rows.Add
       For n = 2 To k
           Set data = stab.Cell(i, n).Range
           data.End = data.End - 1
           ttab.Cell(ttab.Rows.Count, n - 1).Range = data
       Next n
   End If
Next i

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I have a list in excel that contains categories and names.  Some of the
>categories are repeated.  Each name has a category associated with it.  Is
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Meg - 07 Nov 2007 02:11 GMT
i can't follow it.. .... is there any easier solution...

> Sounds like you are probably trying to perform a "multiple items per
> condition (=key field)" mailmerge which Word does not really have the
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 07 Nov 2007 06:19 GMT
Nothing else of which I am aware.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>i can't follow it.. .... is there any easier solution...
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