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Mail merge
Thanks for such a thorough reply. As I noted before, you are clearly very knowledgeable with things Excel. So I wish you well in this....perhaps my having answered, and you having replied, will bring the whole issue to the top of the forum for some other looks by folks with more recent and comparable experience.
mathetesHa ha. I doubt it. I nodded along when you wrote "the really complex stuff was well over 20 years ago". I think mail merge has gone out of fashion. I have not come across anyone using it in this millennium. It is what oldtimers like us still occasionally do 🙂 Probably also the reason it no longer works. Not a focus for MS.
Best.
I'm retired now, in my early 80s, still enjoying figuring out how to do things in Excel, and quite overwhelmed by all the new functions and features. I particularly enjoy the dynamic array functions.
You may be right about Mail Merge. What I recall doing with it that I considered complex was writing a routine that used mail merge to create letters of agreement for employees of a division being sold to another company, and Word had to list variable numbers of benefits that could be (or couldn't be) transferred to the acquiring entity. This would have been in the 1990s...