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Old 10-12-2011, 11:05 AM
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The myheader.docx only has one row, the mail merge is looking for the header row and subsquent rows of information, which there aren't any. If I use the txt file, it only has the information and no corresponding headers.

If I convert the text to table it has 26 different columns and this is hard to read in Word due to page setup and restrictions. If you need to do this in Word I would suggest adjusting the table and the font to be small but the zoom to be big. Otherwise I would create the data source in Excel - word of warning though, sometimes the dates do not appear as you want them to so I suggested formatting those to text.

I tested putting additional rows in your table to put dummy text in and had no problem with the merge. However, with only the header row it returned an error message.

How you linked the txt file to be in the right columns and it worked I don't know you have me stumped on that one.

Someone here will probably explain that side of it.

So, my suggestion would be to to either insert your txt file into a word document and convert text to table and insert a header row at the top, or to insert additional rows in the header document and place the text in the rows with the information required. Or use Excel as your data source.

Hope that helps you in someway
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