Microsoft KB Archive/28991

Works: Merging from More Than One Database

PSS ID Number: Q28991 Article last modified on 10-16-1998

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= SUMMARY =

The Works Print, Print Form Letters command (Print, Print Merge command in Works versions 1.x) can only access data from only one database at a time. This limitation is by design.

= MORE INFORMATION =

To simultaneously merge data from multiple databases, the records from each database must be combined into one database file before you perform the merge operation. To combine records from separate databases into one, follow these steps:


 * 1) Open each database in Works.
 * 2) While in List view in the database from which you want to copy the information, highlight the desired record information.
 * 3) From the Edit menu, choose Copy. Press CTRL+SHIFT+F6 to toggle to the destination database window.
 * 4) Move the highlight to the first empty record at the end of the destination database List view, and press ENTER.
 * 5) Repeat these steps until all the information you want to merge is in a single database file.
 * 6) Save the file. If you want to avoid overwriting the original version of the file, save it under a different name.

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