Header Record Delimiter

L

Latha

I have created a mail merge with the data coming from a
Pipe delimited file. I have created a header field and all th
necessary data in the document. The Field Delimiters are seperated
by a '|' symbol, and the Record Delimiters are seperated
with a '|'. When I open the file with more than 8 records it works fin
and if I dont have 9 or more records, I have to select the
Field and Record delimiters. Is
there any way of eliminating this ? Any idea why this is happening..
I have tried eliminating all special characters and still it is
problem... When I have only one record, if I copy the record 9 times,
dont' get the Header Record Delimiter. Please help
 
C

Cindy M -WordMVP-

Hi Latha,

Word requires a certain number of "data rows" in order to be certain of
the delimiters (find a pattern). Something that often works is to
duplicate the row of field names in the header file. IOW

Field1|Field2|Field3
Field1|Field2|Field3
I have created a mail merge with the data coming from a
Pipe delimited file. I have created a header field and all the
necessary data in the document. The Field Delimiters are seperated
by a '|' symbol, and the Record Delimiters are seperated
with a '|'. When I open the file with more than 8 records it works fine
and if I dont have 9 or more records, I have to select the
Field and Record delimiters. Is
there any way of eliminating this ? Any idea why this is happening...
I have tried eliminating all special characters and still it is a
problem... When I have only one record, if I copy the record 9 times, I
dont' get the Header Record Delimiter.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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