How to automate a merge data into master merged document

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Caroline Williams - 29 Apr 2004 03:51 GMT

How do I automate merged data to appear every time I open
the master merge document. For example, when I click on
the document I want all the merged data to appear
automatically instead of selecting merge to new document
every time. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,
CVW

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Graham Mayor - 29 Apr 2004 10:06 GMT

A merge has three parts
1 A data file
2 A template - your master merge document.
3. The merge itself.

*All* the merge data is only available when you complete the merge. If you
want access to that merged data merge to a new document then save the
document and refer to that.

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> How do I automate merged data to appear every time I open
> the master merge document. For example, when I click on
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> Thanks in advance,
> CVW

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CAROLINE WILLIAMS - 29 Apr 2004 19:24 GMT

Thanks, but do you know why I can't just open the open the master merge
file and have the data already merged automatically instead of always
selecting merge to new document. I have seen it where I have a master merge
file which I downloaded with the data and header info and I just open the
document and it auto merges the data into the document without selecting
merge to a new document. How can this be automated in that way?

Thanks in advance,
Caroline

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> A merge has three parts
> 1 A data file
> 2 A template - your master merge document.
> 3. The merge itself.
>
> *All* the merge data is only available when you complete the merge. If
you
> want access to that merged data merge to a new document then save the
> document and refer to that.
>
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> Web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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> Caroline Williams wrote:
> > How do I automate merged data to appear every time I open
> > the master merge document. For example, when I click on
> > the document I want all the merged data to appear
> > automatically instead of selecting merge to new document
> > every time. Is this possible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > CVW

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 30 Apr 2004 06:46 GMT

To do that, you would have to save the mail merge main document as a
template and have an autonew macro in it that contained the following
commands:

With ActiveDocument.MailMerge
If .State = wdMainAndDataSource Then
.Destination = wdSenttoNewDocument
.Execute
End If
End With

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> Thanks, but do you know why I can't just open the open the master merge
> file and have the data already merged automatically instead of always
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> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > CVW

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