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Merge - Why Merge Skips Every Other Record Us
DocumentID: 654827
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:34 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer was merging a dBASE III file, and every other record was skipped. The customer had his delimiters set up as:
Field Begin:      "
Field End:       ",
Record begin:      [blank]
Record End:      "[CR] Solutions: The customer has the End Field delimiter defined as a quotation and a comma (",), but the last field is followed by only a quotation ("). Because the last field was followed by only a quotation, the {END RECORD} code was being placed immediately after that last field. A merge will skip every other record if your primary file refers to the last field, and that field is followed immediately by an {END RECORD} code.

The customer took the file back into dBASE III and inserted a blank field at the end of the record. By doing this, his end record was being placed at the end of a field that his primary document would never refer to. He then re-exported the information from dBASE III, merged the file in WordPerfect, and the problem was solved.

*This information is given as a troubleshooting option.

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