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Hi everyone,

can someone help me please?

I have a Table in a word document that has colums and 30 rows,


in each cell is a mailmerge field, now what i want is for the mailmerge fields that have any text in them to have a standard box border, but the ones that are blank dont, so that if one customer has 10 rows i get 10 rows with each cell having a box around it, but when i switch to the next record it has might have 20 rows, and so each of them has i boarder around it!

cn someone please tell me if this is posible and give me step by step on how to do it?

thanks

Tony
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Hi Tony,

You should probably use a Directory/Catalog (the terminology depends on the Word version) mailmerge for this, so that each customer gets a table with only as many rows as they require. To see how to do so with any mailmerge data source supported by Word, check out my Microsoft Word Catalogue/Directory Mailmerge Tutorial, in the 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum:
Microsoft Word Catalogue/Directory Mailmerge Tutorial
The tutorial covers everything from list creation to the insertion & calculation of values in multi-record tables in letters. Do read the tutorial before trying to use the mailmerge document included with it.

For a recent, worked example, see the attachment to post #13 at: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...nt-dollar.html
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