Mail Merge - Creating a directory

[Guest]

HI, I need help and yes, I have already checked for this problem/solution and found nothing in the discussion groups related to my problem. I have an excel spreadsheet with contact information that I would like to merge into a Word doc to create a simple directory. Everytime I complete the mail merge steps, I wind up with an individual contact per page or the same person per page over and over again. How do I fill the page with all contacts? The other option I am considering - how do I keep them on the left side only? I am using Windows XP, please help. Thanks.

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
in MS Word don't use mail merge for this. Try using the 'Insert
Database' feature in MS Word and connect to your Excel spreadsheet.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe reading some stuff here will help:

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

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