Merging information from Excel to Word doc

[Linda]

Can anyone tell me how to create a merge document in a
receipt format from my Excel spreadsheet of vendors. I am
a volunteer who recently took over the co-ordinating of a
summer market. We are a non-profit organization and have
to make maximum use of what we have available. I'd like to
be able to create receipts from the spreadsheet by using
the mail merge function. Have tried various ways and it
does not come out right. Perhaps it's the way the info is
entered?? If anyone can help I would be grateful for the
time saved from not having to write 177 receipts by hand!!
Thank you.

 

[Steve McBride]

Linda,

What fields do you have available (populated) in Excel, and how detailed do
you want the receipt to be? What do you want the receipt to look like?
Have you already created a basic receipt format in Word?

Steve

 

[Dave Peterson]

And a couple of links that may help:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMerge/index.html

The first is from David McRitchie and the second is by Beth Melton and Dave
Rado.