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idiot - 15 Mar 2004 08:06 GMT

I am doing a mail merge with data from Access. The fields are Position Sought, Surname and Firstname. As the result is quite lengthy, I am thinking about printing the result in Word, so that I can have more control over the format

What I want is

Accountan
Jan Smit
Bob Brow
Sue Blac

Administratio
Jacqui Jone
Liz Gre
Alan Green et

I want to merge into three columns, so that I can keep as much on a page as possible. When I tried to do this it became a disaster and I ended up with about 300 pages, with one record on each. I selected three columns so that it would wrap like a newspaper

Is there an easy way to achieve this? It works okay in Access except that it runs to several pages

Yours gratefully

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Graham Mayor - 15 Mar 2004 08:37 GMT

Easy way? - No! But it should be possible. See the information provided in
the following link and set the page layout to use three columns and note the
all important directory/catalog merge document type.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294686

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> I am doing a mail merge with data from Access. The fields are
> Position Sought, Surname and Firstname. As the result is quite
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> Yours gratefully!

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