I have made sure I have all of the newest updates. I have made sure that each of the documents (template and data list) were created in Word 2016 and Excel 2016 (so nothing I have uninstalled (completely) and reinstalled. I have requested assistance with this problem through the online chat the past two days.
several major changes like improved Mail Merge for. "The converter necessary to open this file cannot be found." Excel 2016 for Mac's chart preview feature suggests the charts that best fit a set of data and it adds deeper data analysis. The other 50-75% of the time, an error appears that shows the following: The data merge fields are only recognized 25-50% of the time. Choose Yes to open this file only if you are sure it is from a trusted source."Īfter clicking "Yes" it takes up to a minute for the merge fields to be allowed. "This file needs to be opened by the Excel Workbook text converter, which may pose a security risk if the file you are opening is a malicious file. When I go to merge the excel file into my Word 2016 template I get the following: I created a new "Existing List" in Excel 2016. I have started to create new document templates in Word 2016.
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Then I had to upgrade to Word 2016 and Excel 2016 because support has ceased for Word and Excel 2011. DDE has now been disabled in modern Office as a security risk.I have been using mail merge heavily for the last 4 years in Word 2011 and Excel 2011 for Mac. There was an older ‘ Dynamic Data Exchange‘ system available for communication between Office apps. It’s the easiest to use, just insert into the merge document and it’ll appear exactly the same as in Excel. ‘PercentageasText’ locks you into a single format to display in Word. There may be cases where you use the same Excel data in different formats for the mail merge. Probably ‘Percentagex100’ is the better choice since it sends a number (not text) to Word that you can format in any way you wish. Įither ‘Percentagex100’ or ‘PercentageasText’ will work in a Word mail merge. PercentageasText: is the column B value converted to text (using the TEXT function) with percentage formatting applied. Percentagex100: is the fraction from column B multiplied by 100. This is the usual way percentages are handled in Excel.Īctual Value: exposes the value in column B in the way Excel stores it, in other words as a fraction.
Percentage: Column B is the fraction (eg 0.12) displayed as a percentage. Here’s a sample worksheet that shows you two different ways to ‘massage’ a percentage into a Word friendly form (the data is fictional): The most direct option is to add some columns in Excel with versions of the percentage figure that you can use in Excel. Remember to press Ctrl + F9 to make the field – not the curly brackets on the keyboard. This lets you multiply the number coming from Excel by 100 before formatting. To do it embed the MERGEFIELD inside another Word field. In the Label Options dialog box, next to Label. On the Mailings tab, click Start Mail Merge > Labels. Step 1: Set up a document to match your labels. If you use Microsoft Office 2016 with a Mac computer, you can easily import addresses or other data from an Excel spreadsheet or from your Apple Contacts and. You can change the decimal fraction (eg 0.738) to a percentage (73.8) in Word. Creating labels with mail merge is a four-step process: set up a document to match your labels, connect to your spreadsheet, format the merge fields, and then print your labels. Normally, a Word mail merge will import the raw number from Excel and let you format it in way we’ve described before.Īs usual, there’s more than one solution to the problem: Formatting in Word For example 25% is stored in Excel as 0.25. How can you put percentages into a Word mail merge?įollowing our article on importing Excel data into a Word mail merge, here are the options for using percentages.Įxcel might show a percentage but the number stored is a fraction.
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