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Stuart Troy - 01 May 2005 23:40 GMT
(Hi Doug!) I have a relational database containing 2 tables.  The first table
contains a list of primary contacts.  The second table contains a list of
their associated team members.

Each primary contact is assigned a non-duplicate key, which is then used to
identify each and all of their team members in table 2.

I want to create a merge in Word that addresses the letter to the primary
contact (from table 1) and then lists all of their team mates (from table 2).

Best regards
Stuart
Doug Robbins - 02 May 2005 08:36 GMT
Hi Stuart,

I'm still around, but now living in Paris.

If you data is in Access, then I would be using an Access Report to do what
you are after with grouping by the primary contact.

Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" mailmerge.

See the "Multiple items per condition" item under the "Special merges"
section of fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

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

> (Hi Doug!) I have a relational database containing 2 tables.  The first
> table
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> Best regards
> Stuart
Stuart Troy - 02 May 2005 14:49 GMT
Thanks very much for all the pointers!

Your response has led me to discover the "database" Field.  Which I read
about here; www.knowhow.com/Guides/CompoundMerges/CompoundMerge.htm

I'm now learning how to utilise the "database" field to connect to a remote
SQL database, but the example only demonstrates how to connect to a local
Access database.  But I'm on my way!

Merci Doug! ;)

Stuart
Sydney, Australia
 
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