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I'm currently looking at creating an automated field entry for reports at my company, extracting the data from an excel file. What I want, is to enter a job number, and it to automatically fill in the title field, author field, and client field from the job number. Essentially it's a lookup from word to excel.



I know that mail merge is a way of linking excel data through to word, but I haven't been able to find a way to have a specific entry to go through as opposed to the entire data field.


If anybody can give me any help on this it would be fantastic.
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hi hustafus,

With the mailmerge, you can use record filtering to output only the records you select.

Alternatively, you could combine a SKIPIF filed with a FILLIN field, along the lines of:
{SKIPIF {MERGEREC} <> {FILLIN "Record # to merge" \o}}
or
{SKIPIF{=({MERGEREC}< {FILLIN "First Record #" \d 1 \o})+({MERGEREC}> {FILLIN "Last Record #" \d 999 \o})}= 1}

Note: The field braces (ie '{}') are created via Ctrl-F9 - you can type them or copy them from this post.
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