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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / November 2004Mailmerge
Hi all, I use mailmerge in Word to generate mailings. The datasource I use is created in an external application that generates a flat text-file with tab-delimited fields in it. Is there way to save multi-lined fields in such a flat textfile ? I'd like to be able to merge "textblocks", but the linefeed-symbol in the datasource textfile is the recordseparator. Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this or how I can "simulate" carriage returns in the flat textfile (=the datasource used). Regards Glenn De Tollenaere Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWFpbG1lcmdlIHRleHRibG9ja3M=?=, Generate the text file such that each field's content is contained in its own set of "quotes". Everything within the quotes, including line feeds, will be considered part of the field content. > I use mailmerge in Word to generate mailings. The datasource I use is > created in an external application that generates a flat text-file with [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this or how I can "simulate" > carriage returns in the flat textfile (=the datasource used). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Cindy, this does work, but an extra dialog appears demanding the fieldseparator. If I choose ',' there the merging executes correct. I'd like to avoid the dialog however, any idea how this can be achieved (I use OLE to create merged documents automatically, so I don't want this extra interaction from the user). Regards Glenn De Tollenaere > Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWFpbG1lcmdlIHRleHRibG9ja3M=?=, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Cindy, ignore the previous post, I forgot one '"' in the last line of my textfile. All works fine, thanks for the tip ! Regards Glenn De Tollenaere > Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWFpbG1lcmdlIHRleHRibG9ja3M=?=, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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