I use Microsoft Word's mail merge feature often. It works great for connecting into a database and spitting out all sorts of documents - but it's kind of clunky when…
Problem When running a mail merge in Microsoft Word some merge fields change format. For example, the font or size will change. Changing the styles applied to the field or…
If you're building a string using an SQL statement, you can split results with "new lines" using CHAR() to insert the ASCII line break character into your string. For example,…
The following steps show how to remove the link between a Word document and a mail merge data source. When you open a Word document that has mail merge data…
One of the little known features of Microsoft Word is the ability to do calculations based on mail merge fields. The process is as easy as creating an expression field…
When using Word 2010 to create mail merges you can customise fields to automatically format the text or numbers as required. In this example we will be customising a merge…