Create A Data Source For A Mail Merge

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  1. For more on creating a data source directly for Word see Creating a Mail Merge Data Source by Beth Melton, MVP. Skip Parts If a Field is Blank Often it will be possible that multiple people are to be addressed or an address has multiple lines, but not always.
  2. Jump to Select a data source - Before you insert fields into your target document, select a data source in the Data Merge panel. You can have only one.

Microsoft Word supports many file formats which can be used as a Data Source for a mail merge. This article covers specifications and frequently asked.

Step by step: When you reopen the mail merge main document, you'll see a box like this (the contents of the SELECT line will be different): Because you intend to use a different source, click No. The main document will open, with the merge fields showing. Now click Mailings Select Recipients Use an Existing List.

The Select Data Source dialog (similar to the File Open dialog) appears; navigate to the right folder and select the new source file. When you click the Preview Results button, Word may display an Invalid Merge Field dialog. That means that the column names in the new source are different from those in the old source, so the merge fields in the main document don't match the new data. Depending on the situation, you may remove the offending field name, replace it with a name from the new source, change the names in the new source file and start over, or create a new main merge document and start over. https://jay-freedman.info. This is getting very complicated. Microsoft sure knows how to make it so hard so that you need their customer support.

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I am new to Microsoft Office 2016, and I have not performed a mailmerge in forever, so the full meaning of sql and data sources is like Chinese to me. I went to Office Depot to look for another word processor and spreadsheet and the sales guy there told me that they were all much the same and that I should purchase the LearnIt Anytime online tutorial. This is probably an answer to my prayers because I want to know more than the list of steps to complete a task. I need to understand the language used and a broad understanding of the operation of the program.

Times like this I look back on pre computer times when life was way more simple! All of this 'data source' language is very confusing to me. I understand how one has to create the correct merge fields.

I have purchased the LearnIt Anytime online tutorial. Are you familiar with this site? I hate not understanding the big picture.

And getting caught up in the minutia of following steps blindly has my head spinning. Thank you for your specific steps, though! To add insult to injury with this learning curve, right now I am having a glitch with this mailmerge and my printer. All of a sudden it quit printing the letters. I had to get online live chat with MS support and even with a full day of trouble shooting, they STILL have not diagnosed and solved the glitch. I am supposed to be connecting back up with Level 2 technical support.

My feeling about the degree to which MS has taken this program is: this is ridiculous! And my head is spinning. My job is to find real estate deals through this mailmerge operation, but now I feel like I am just a technician and an admin. The SQL message Jay quoted is not inevitable.

You can make a Registry edit to suppress it. Provided you are careful to follow all the steps, the easiest way (for a novice) to create a mail merge is to use the Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard. That command is on the Start Mail Merge dropdown in the Start Mail Merge group on the Mailings tab. When you have completed the merge, you'll have two documents. One will be the 'mail merge main document,' which contains the merge fields in the appropriate arrangement.

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That's the one you want to save. The other, assuming you have completed the merge to a document, will be Letters1.docx or Labels1.docx or the like. After you've printed that, you can discard it or save it as needed.

I like to save my mail merge main documents with 'header' in the filename. For example, for my Rotary club, I have Home Address Label Header, Home Address List Header, Preferred address label header, Rotarian Ages Header, etc. All of these use the same data source: the database of addresses and other information for my club members.

They just contain different merge fields arranged differently for lists, envelopes, labels, etc. Microsoft MVP (Word) since 1999 Fairhope, Alabama USA http://ssbarnhill.com. See Word is a very simple program, until you try to do something a bit more advanced.

Look at the Mailing tab. It replaces or supplants the old Mail Merge wizard. You will want to Select Recipients. You will be asked to provide the data file. You can save a primary merge document as a template if you want. That is one way to make sure that making changes to it has to be deliberate.

I save mine as templates without a data file attached (as an ordinary Word template, not mail merge). To use it, I create a new document based no the template and select recipients. Please mark helpful or answered as appropriate to help other users.

Charles Kenyon Attorney at Law Madison, Wisconsin wordfaqataddbalancedotcom http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm. Hi Nancy, Yes, I know the feeling of being swamped with jargon.

I'll try to help. 'Data source' is just a jargon name for 'a file that contains information.' The information is arranged so the program can read it. For example, if the information is names and addresses, it can be arranged in a table so the name and address of one person is all in one row, the name and address for the next person is in the next row, and so on. The reason it's called a 'source' is that the information 'flows' from that file into the 'merge main document' where the merge fields are. The data from one row is poured into one set of merge fields, then the data from the next row is poured into the next set of merge fields, and so on. The filled-in document can then be saved, printed, emailed, etc.

Word can accept data source files that are made in Word, using tables. It can also accept worksheets from Excel, data tables from databases such as Access, and even plain-text 'comma-separated variable' (CSV) files. The mention of SQL ('Structured Query Language') in the message I showed refers to the way Word finds the data in the data source file. You don't need to know anything about it to use mail merge, so just ignore it.

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Brian, Oh, you are another Brian! Sure this is possible. I do this sort of thing all the time. Just don't think of MailMerge as the concept. How comfortable are you with VBA coding?

Before I'd offer any advice, I would first ask you how the data is arranged. Want to post a few (two or three) rows of XL data for each dealer/record (change the data as you see fit for confidentiality. I just need to see a spreadsheet layout, assuming you are using spreadsheets to maintain the data. Brian Reilly, MVP. Hi, I had a similar problem and discovered a dead simple solution. Here are the steps.

In the ppt choose 'Edit Select All' (You can skip header/footer if not required) and Copy (Ctrl C) 2. Open a new word file and go to 'File Page setup' and choose 'Landscape' layout mode (it is best for ppt slides) 3. Go to the Drawing tool bar and (if it is not visible, go to 'Toolbar - Drawing'. In the Drawing tool bar, click any shape (say circle). On clicking, an outline rectangular box will open up in the word document page. (Dont worry about the circle created, you can delete it later, it is just to invoke the 'rectangular drawing area box' 4. Rt click your mouse in the drawing area (now shown as outlined rectangle), and just paste the ppt certificate content that you had copied in Step 1 above 5.

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The ppt slide content is now visible inside the drawing box. You can edit the content just by simple mouse click. At this point you have fully 'editable' ppt content within a word document in landscape mode From hereon, you can follow the standard Word Mail merge procedure (Tools Letters and Mailings Mail Merge Letters (or email) and create do a regular mail merge using data sources (xl data, CSV, txt file etc). After setting up the mail merge, simply send it as e-mail (or) 'print to pdf' (or) Print to file. Using the above method, I printed out 450 certificates which contained 4 fields that were merged from an xl sheet (Student Name, Project Name, Scores, Certificate #) Try it out and I am sure it will solve your problem!! No need for any add-ons or extra s/w, just MS office functionality is good enough to get this done!!

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