mail merge for each individual excel doc in a folder

Doug, macropod.

Thanks for your willingness to assist. Unfortunately I ran out of time
on this project.
I have decided to email the Excel workbook and the Word doc to the
reps, they will merge the two, for the final list of forms to be
completed by their clients.

I created the mail merge Word doc and added this code,

Sub AutoOpen()
With ActiveDocument
.MailMerge.Destination = wdSendtoNewDocument
.MailMerge.Execute
End With
End Sub

This was probably written by one of you two. LOL (Doug, you are quite
the Word celebrity, authority, guru, maestro…). I feel privileged that
you responded to my question.

I created an instructional video that I will embed in a PDF doc,
showing how to save the attachments, run the mail merge and save the
final Word document.

I will pursue my original question and I will find a solution. When I
do, I will post it back in this thread.

My thanks once more.

Sal.




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salventuro

How do I modify my mail merge file? I would like to add another field to the
mail merge file. Can anyone help me?

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MonMonRie


"salventuro" wrote:


Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is having a good day.

This is my first post here, I'm a noob, so be gentle. LOL

I am running Office 2003 Pro on XP Pro SP2.

I have been searching the web for a solution to a project I'm working
on, to no avail. I don't know if it's even possible.

I have inserted the image of a form in a Word doc, I have mapped the
fields to be merged from the data in excel spreadsheets

I can perform the mail merge manually. The issue is, I have over one
thousand excel doc's to perform the merge on. Can a macro be used to
loop through a folder, merge and propogate to a new Wrd doc for each
excel doc?


This will create over one thousand word doc's, which will then be
emailed to the corresponding employees.

Also, can the name of the new Word doc created, be saved as the
corresponding name as the Excel doc?
Example, if the Excel doc is named 123abc.xls. can the new propogated
Word doc be saved as 123ab.doc?

Any assistance or links anyone knows of, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and have a great day!




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salventuro

What version of Word, what type of Data Source?

However, one certain way of doing it is to use the existing data source with
a Directory type mailmerge main document in which you insert the mergefields
into the cells of a one row table that has one extra column, that is
required, but have nothing else in the document. When you execute that
merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of
data for each record in the data source. Insert a row at the top of that
table and into the cells of that row insert the names of your mergefields
(just the names as in your data source, not the actual mergefields) and then
populate the additional empty column with the data that you require for each
record. You can then save and use that file as a data source.

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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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"MonMonRie" wrote in message
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How do I modify my mail merge file? I would like to add another field to
the
mail merge file. Can anyone help me?

--
MonMonRie


"salventuro" wrote:


Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is having a good day.

This is my first post here, I'm a noob, so be gentle. LOL

I am running Office 2003 Pro on XP Pro SP2.

I have been searching the web for a solution to a project I'm working
on, to no avail. I don't know if it's even possible.

I have inserted the image of a form in a Word doc, I have mapped the
fields to be merged from the data in excel spreadsheets

I can perform the mail merge manually. The issue is, I have over one
thousand excel doc's to perform the merge on. Can a macro be used to
loop through a folder, merge and propogate to a new Wrd doc for each
excel doc?


This will create over one thousand word doc's, which will then be
emailed to the corresponding employees.

Also, can the name of the new Word doc created, be saved as the
corresponding name as the Excel doc?
Example, if the Excel doc is named 123abc.xls. can the new propogated
Word doc be saved as 123ab.doc?

Any assistance or links anyone knows of, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and have a great day!




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salventuro