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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: Word vs. Repeating Fields in Filemaker PRO
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.140351.6137@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:03:51 GMT
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- kantor@nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) writes:
-
- >What I would like to do is a Mail Merge using Microsoft Word 5.0. Using
- >the Merge export option in Filemaker fails, however, because it
- >gives records with a varying number of fields. The repeating fields
- >are separated by some odd ball character, not by the comma that
- >separates ordinary fields. But this is still enough to make word barf.
-
- Do you actually need to export the keywords in the repeating field
- for a mail merge? That odd-ball character you talk about is the vertical
- tab (vt) character, and that is what FM Pro uses to separate repeating
- fields.
-
- >Is there any simple way to do mail merge with a file from Filemaker
- >that has repeating fields?
-
- Well, if you really need the values of the repeating field in the
- mail merge what you can do is a find/replace of the vt character in the
- data file with a comma before you merge. This will at least make the
- format consistent.
-
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