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Hi,



I have a mail merge with a lot of conditional fields that I did up to amalgamate 3 different letters into one. To my surprise, it actually worked perfectly, until I tried to feed it a reasonably sized list of clients. The information used by the merge are:
-Client name
-address
-city
-postal code
-hydro utility
-appliance
-appliance kWh metering
-appliance kWh standard

What the conditional fields are doing is deciding what strings of text to use in the body of the letter. Originally there were three letters, one for clients whose appliances were metered (hereafter referred to as "status 1"), one for those whose appliances were too new to warrant metering (hereafter "status 2"), and those whose appliances qualified but could not be replaced (hereafter "status 3").

The first 2 conditional fields check if they are status 3, because the status 3 letter cancels out most of the body. Where I'm having problems is the third conditional field, which checks if they are status 2.

If I have a small spreadsheet of recipients, everything goes fine. It builds the right letter for each of the 3 statuses. But if there are more than 11~ recipients in the list that are not status 2 before a status 2 appears, then it breaks down and builds the status 1 letter. I have attached the letter and problem spreadsheet, and the debug spreadsheets I've used with the letter.

Any help is greatly appreciated, even if someone can just confirm that this problem doesn't occur in later versions of Office.

Thanks,
Gabe
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File Type: xlsx Mailout list test.xlsx (18.0 KB, 9 views)
File Type: xlsx No Ex Mailout list debug.xlsx (17.9 KB, 9 views)
File Type: docx rejection letter upload.docx (19.6 KB, 9 views)
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