Word - Creating a directory with 2 colums using mailmerge

Asked By Jody46 on 29-Jul-12 03:10 PM
I want to create a directoy.  My data will come from anexcel
spreadsheet.  I need the data to populate a table with 2 colums.  How
can I do this in Word or puplisher?




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Jody46


Lisa Wilke-Thissen replied to Jody46 on 30-Jul-12 03:33 AM
Hi,


Which versions of Word/Excel are you using?


So, what is the problem? How many fields will be used? How do you want
them to be arranged within the table?

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Cheers
Lisa [MS MVP Word]
Suzanne S. Barnhill replied to Jody46 on 30-Jul-12 12:19 PM
Set up the mail merge main document (as a "Directory") with two columns and
put your merge fields in the first column. As the page fills, the content
will fill the second column. If this is something like an address directory
that has more than one line per entry, make sure to end the lines with line
breaks (Shift+Enter) instead of paragraph breaks (Enter) so that the entire
address block will be a single paragraph. Then format that paragraph as



I want to create a directoy.  My data will come from anexcel
spreadsheet.  I need the data to populate a table with 2 colums.  How
can I do this in Word or puplisher?




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Jody46