Hi Yuri,
The problem is that I want to embed tabs and CRLF in one of the merge fields in order to simulate a table of five columns. If I have to, I'll drop mail merge and "hand build" each letter at run time and build the table, but I'd love to keep it a simple mail merge.

It's inconceivable to me that MS would allow us to specify a number of delimiters through the interface but not have a way through the API but it wouldn't be the first brick wall from Word.

Thanks,
Gary

>>Hi,
>>I have a merge routine using a txt file with |(pipe) for the field and ^ for the record delimiters. Odd choices I know, but Word allows them. However, at merge time Word asks for the delimiters. When these are picked, the merge works fine but I want to tell Word what to use instead of getting the dialog.
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>>Anyone know how to tell Word what the delimiters are?
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>>Thanks,
>>Gary
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>Probably the easiest way would be to convert delimeters/separators to the "standard" characters, like:
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>strtofile(CHRTRAN(FILETOSTR(original_txtfile),[|^],["]+CHR(13))),temp_txtfile)
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>And then you may use the temp_txtfile as a data source for the mailmerge.