I have a mail merge I'm working on that appears to be a bit of a challenge.
A contract number can have more than one contract type. If I try to merge
the data below I get 7 documents (000022222, 000022222, 000022222,
000022222, 000022223, 000022223 000022225) when in fact there are only three
unique documents (000022222, 000022223, 000022225) How do I place all of the
information of a particular contract in its own document?
FYI: I cannot use Access because our company does not have it.
Contract No. Contract Title Contract Type Author
000022222 Title1 international Smith
000022222 Title1 domestic Smith
000022222 Title1 NAFTA Smith
000022222 Title1 Asia Smith
000022223 Title1 US Jeffrey
000022223 Title1 Asia Jeffrey
000022225 Title1 domestic Jones
Any suggestions?
Please explain slowly as am not experienced in vba.
Thanks
P
Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
condition (=key field)" mailmerge.
See the "Group Multiple items for a single condition" item on fellow MVP
Cindy Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq1.htm#DBPic
Or take a look at the following Knowledge Base Article
How to Work Around Duplicate Names in Mail Merge Data
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302665
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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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>I have a mail merge I'm working on that appears to be a bit of a challenge.
> A contract number can have more than one contract type. If I try to merge
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> Thanks
> P
Parisa - 31 Oct 2005 15:42 GMT
> Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
> condition (=key field)" mailmerge.
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> > Thanks
> > P
I'll try your suggestions. However your third suggestions seems to be out of
my league but I'll try. Thanks
jdb - 08 Dec 2005 18:56 GMT
The Macro solution works near-perfectly. There was a syntax error in the
macro, but I just guessed about what it might be and, sure enough, it works.
Thanks.
I do have one question - after I run the macro, all the formatting is lost -
page layout, font, bold, etc. Is there a way to rpeserve the formatting
information while running it?
Thanks again.

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Joe
> Word does not really have the ability to perform a "multiple items per
> condition (=key field)" mailmerge.
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> > Thanks
> > P
Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 08 Dec 2005 21:00 GMT
Not sure to which macro you are refering here.

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Hope this helps.
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services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> The Macro solution works near-perfectly. There was a syntax error in the
> macro, but I just guessed about what it might be and, sure enough, it
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>> > Thanks
>> > P