Some names missing after merge

[Guest]

I'm doing a mail merge in Word. I'm using a standard Avery template for name
badges which places 8 names on a page. I have a secondary file that contains
the name data that I use to merge from. Each label contains the following
information:

«FirstName»
«LastName»
«Church», «City»
«Next Record»

The problem is revealed after the merge. The first 8 names are placed
correctly on each badge on the first page. When the merge places the next 8
names on the 2nd page it skips a name from the database. This goes on
successively for each page. The first name at the top of each page is
skipped, so I have to go back and find the name of the people skipped and
manually enter them in. Let me try and clarify one thing. All 8 badges on a
page are filled with a name, but the merge process skips a name from the data
file after every 8 names.

The interesting thing is that I have always encountered this problem no
matter which computer I have used or even if I was using a different software
such as WordPerfect. What am I doing wrong? I'm thinking operator error,
but is it?

 

[Guest]

The answer to this is to eliminate the «Next Record» field from the top left
label. Then, on the other labels, move the «Next Record» field from under
the other fields to the top line «FirstName» field. Make sure that the
«Next Record» and «FirstName» fields are on the same line, otherwise it will
drop everything down a line.