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    Exclamation Help with excel and word. Sounds easy, but its not.

    I am trying to make a 5x7 sheet with three areas for data in a sentence, word needs to pull the data from excel and do this for each line and word needs to make a new 5x7 sheet for every new line. so if i have 10 lines with 3 data points in excel i should have 10 pages in word. I just dont know how to do this.. Please help..

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    Can you post sample Word and Excel showing your proposed layout. Used Go Advanced/Manage attachments.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mdmackillop View Post
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    Can you post sample Word and Excel showing your proposed layout. Used Go Advanced/Manage attachments.
    I want the addresss to go with address and name to go to name but a separate 5x7 per line.
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    Create a mail merge Word Document.
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    what does that mean?

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    Go to Word and look for the Mailings tab. There are tools there to create a document which pulls data from the table, designed exactly for this purpose.
    I would not do this any other way.
    There is an article here
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