Column headers in catalog merge?

Hello All,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

Headers
First Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Second Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Third Payment line item
etc...

I was wondering if there was a way to tell Word (either in
the main document or during the merge process) that the
column headers should only be displayed once (ie; not
repeated). If anybody has any information on how to do
this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems

Merge to a new document and then add the extra information you wish to
display.

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Neil Dittmar wrote:
Hello All,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

Headers
First Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Second Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Third Payment line item
etc...

I was wondering if there was a way to tell Word (either in
the main document or during the merge process) that the
column headers should only be displayed once (ie; not
repeated). If anybody has any information on how to do
this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems

You have to add them after the merge. It could be done with a macro.

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Hope this helps
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"Neil Dittmar" wrote in message
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Hello All,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

Headers
First Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Second Payment line item
Headers (Repeated)
Third Payment line item
etc...

I was wondering if there was a way to tell Word (either in
the main document or during the merge process) that the
column headers should only be displayed once (ie; not
repeated). If anybody has any information on how to do
this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems

Hi Neil,

I am using the mail merge features in Word 2000 with the
main document type as Catalog to produce a table with
invoice payment line items. The table is created
successfully after the merge, however I would like to be
able to put column headers on the table as well. If I add
column headers to the main document and then merge, I end
up with the headers being repeated in every other row of
the table. For example:

For a table, you could put a row with column headers in the
HEADER portion of the main merge document. Getting it all
lined up can be a bit tricky, you may need to put that row in
a text box and format it "behind the text".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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