I think I'm going to scrap the idea of using mail merge...researching this led me to creating a "catalog/directory" mail merge, but then i had trouble creating subsequent documents.

Anyway, I'm going to go back to using bookmarks and see how slow it will really be....J
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Is it possible to generate mail merge document that contains master and child table such as invoice and invoice details?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Word doesn't support a parent-child set-up, so you need to generate a flat cursor as the data source for the merge.
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>Hi Tamar,
>>
>>I'm using your great Automation book to help me out here.
>>
>>Once I have my flat cursor built, how do i tell Word to start a new document, i.e., I have a header source something like:
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>>Employer_name, Employer_address, detail
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>>and data source:
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>>Employer1Name, Employer1Address, detail1
>>Employer1Name, Employer1Address, detail2
>>Employer1Name, Employer1Address, detail3
>> etc.
>>Employer2Name, Employer12Address, detail1
>>Employer2Name, Employer12Address, detail2
>>Employer2Name, Employer12Address, detail3
>> etc.
>>
>>Where all the details for employer1 should be in one document, all details for employer 2 in the second document, etc.
>>
>>Thanks...J
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>I'm using Microsoft Word 2000, but, of course, need this to work in various versions.
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>I'm trying to make sense of Word "Next Record If" field, and added a First_Employer_Record field that contains a "Y" if it's the first record for the employer, otherwise, it contains a "N".
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>But I am still getting one detail record per page.
>
>J