Hello,



I apologise if this is a really stupid question but I just cannot figure out how to achieve this!

I am using the eBay sales history csv file to create a mail merge for invoices. It works perfectly unless a buyer has purchased more than one item.

The CSV is formatted so that each individual record is downloaded into a row with all the necessary information i.e. buyer details and items purchased.

The trouble comes when a person purchases more than one item. If a person purchases two items which are different (i.e. combines postage on multiple items), eBay generates three rows, each with the same record number. The first row contains the address details of the buyer but no item detail then the two rows below contain the items purchased, one per line. The rows which contain the actual purchased items does not contain the address details.

What I would like to achieve is an invoice that lists all the items of a particular sale. In my head I would achieve this by saying "if" more than one row contains the same sales record number, merge all of their "items" to a single invoice in the form of a table.

If this possible?

Many thanks

Mike

Hi mike,

You can use Word's Catalogue/Directory Mailmerge facility for this (the terminology depends on the Word version). 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
Do read the tutorial before trying to use the mailmerge document included with it.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for taking the time to reply - I will read the tutorial!

Kind regards,

Mike

Did you end up getting this working? I am having similar issues.

Hi element 465,

Have you read the tutorial & tried to apply it?

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Nope, not yet.

I haven't read it yet. I will give it a shot tomorrow! Just seeing if anyone else was able to finish the task!

I will let you know the results tomorrow.