Word 2007 mail merge glitch

[KenCunningham]

Hi folks, if I had any hair I'd be losing it by now! I'm trying to get mail merge working via Word 2007 and an Access database. All is fine except that when adding each field, one has to close the 'Insert Merge Field' dialogue to move the insertion point and then do another 'Insert Merge Field' to add the next field.

This seems incredibly clunky, and I've been unable to find anything elsewhere (I'm not saying I looked everywhere mind you) to give some kind of workaround so that merge fields and spaces etc can be entered without all the opening and closing of dialogues.

Any help appreciated.

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[BlueHorizon]

Hi,

I don't know what types of fields you're merging. If they are name and address fields, there's an address block in Word that puts the whole address in at once. You can match the fields from Access using the command in Wrd.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Blue Horizon

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks Blue. I was aware of this feature, but it's not only addresses I need to merge - various client info. for example. Have you or anyone else got any other suggestions/solutions? Thanks again though!

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[dcompto]

I'm now on Office 2010, but I believe when I was using Word 2007, I was able to add the "Insert Merge Field" button to the QAT and it functioned like earlier versions.

Hope this helps.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks - I'll take a look at that option.

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