Can I reset the record pointer in a catalog merge document?

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AIngersoll - 26 Jan 2005 14:57 GMT

I am trying to reset the record pointer back to the first record after having
gone through the records once in a previous section of the catalog merge
document.
I need something equivalent to «Next Record» such as "«First Record»".

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Graham Mayor - 26 Jan 2005 16:49 GMT

This is not possible. What exactly are you trying to achieve?

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> I am trying to reset the record pointer back to the first record
> after having gone through the records once in a previous section of
> the catalog merge document.
> I need something equivalent to ?Next Record? such as "?First Record?".

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AIngersoll - 27 Jan 2005 00:23 GMT

I have a catalog merge document that has multiple sections that pull data
from the same Microsoft Access Query but format the information differently
in various sections of the document.
As an example, I have a section that lists product part numbers with
associated descriptions and in another section the product part numbers need
to be listed again but with pricing information.
I do not control the document format so I am not at liberty to rearrange the
document.

Lacking a record control command, can you think of any tricks that might
accomplish the same results?

> This is not possible. What exactly are you trying to achieve?
>
> > I am trying to reset the record pointer back to the first record
> > after having gone through the records once in a previous section of
> > the catalog merge document.
> > I need something equivalent to «Next Record» such as "«First Record»".

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Graham Mayor - 27 Jan 2005 06:03 GMT

Catalog merges are problematic enough without this level of complexity. I
can't think of a way of doing this off hand - see if Cindy's web site
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister can help.

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> I have a catalog merge document that has multiple sections that pull
> data from the same Microsoft Access Query but format the information
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>>> I need something equivalent to ?Next Record? such as "?First
>>> Record?".

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