Merging using directory into an existing template

[achuneke]

I've set up a template (.dotx) with a several pages of information. In the middle of this info is a table containing the merge fields I want to use for the directory.



When it's time to update the directory, I'd like to just run a merge, but using a "directory" merge makes a complete copy of the ancillary text for each name merged. I can delete everything but the table, run the directory merge and paste everything else back in and then it's fine. Is there a way to tell Word to just repeat the table over and over in the table location without copying all the other text over and over? I thought perhaps isolating the table in its own section would help but apparently not.

I'm pretty good with VBA but that seems like a hard way to do it. My data source is an Excel sheet, BTW.

Thanks
Al