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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / July 2005Data appears in my letter which is NOT in the data source, why?
I hold data in an excel spreadsheet and am merging to word. I'm using windows Xp if that matters! Info is appearing in my form letters which shouldn't be there, and is not in the corresponding cells in the exce data source. I have tried deleting the merge fields and doing it again but it keeps reappearing What is the data, please? ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com > I hold data in an excel spreadsheet and am merging to word. I'm using windows > Xp if that matters! Info is appearing in my form letters which shouldn't be > there, and is not in the corresponding cells in the exce data source. I have > tried deleting the merge fields and doing it again but it keeps reappearing Hi =?Utf-8?B?bWluaWRyaXZlcnBpcA==?=, > I hold data in an excel spreadsheet and am merging to word. I'm using windows > Xp if that matters! Info is appearing in my form letters which shouldn't be > there, and is not in the corresponding cells in the exce data source. I have > tried deleting the merge fields and doing it again but it keeps reappearing Version of Word would be more interesting than the version of Windows... Could you give us an example or two of what's happening? Including the text surrounding the merge fields in the document. If you start with a new document, link to the Excel file, and insert a couple of the merge fields do you see the same problem when merging this test document to a new document? 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 :-) I am using word 2003. I have similarly named (but NOT the same name) column headings in excel and the cells hold simple text. I'm using a table in word. Whilst several of the rows of the table correctly display the right text, two particular rows should be empty as the cells are empty in excel, but it is repeating the information from the row above or from the previous excel cells. I have double checked that I do not have a rogue merge field in, and I don't, it is correct. I have deleted the row and done it again and it repeats the mistake. I am using the correct merge field for sure! Think I'm going crazy! Thanks for your help > Hi =?Utf-8?B?bWluaWRyaXZlcnBpcA==?=, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply > in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi =?Utf-8?B?bWluaWRyaXZlcnBpcA==?=, This certainly indicates either a damaged document, or a damaged Excel workbook. Did you try my suggestion to test linking the data to a new document? > I am using word 2003. I have similarly named (but NOT the same name) column > headings in excel and the cells hold simple text. I'm using a table in word. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > don't, it is correct. I have deleted the row and done it again and it repeats > the mistake. 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 :-) |
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