Mail Merge that only acts upon rows that contain data and not functions

chipsworld

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All,
I am confident that someone has a solution to the below...

I have a mail merge that works perfectly except...

It will run each row regardless of content in trigger cell (Name)

The data in the sheet being used is all copied form other sheets and consolidated on this one. When I run the mail merge, it works as it should, but it works on ALL rows...even the ones that have just a function.

I have seen various examples of code to deal with this, but can't for the life of me figure out how to make it work and it is the last thing I need to call this project done!

Here is the code that I have now...have tried a few things, but none of them have worked... Thanks in advance for any help!

Code:
Private Sub btn_Annexmerge_Click()
Dim Sheet As Worksheet, wsName As String, DataSource As String, WordPath As String
Dim WordApp As New Word.Application, WordDoc As Word.Document, StrName As String
Dim myvalue As String, mergeselect As String

Dim fd As FileDialog
Dim strShortName As String
Dim strInitialDir As String
Dim wb As Workbook
strInitialDir = CurDir  
Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
With fd
.InitialFileName = CurDir & "\"
.AllowMultiSelect = False
.Filters.Clear
.Filters.Add "All Word Files", "*.doc; *.docx"
If .Show = False Then
MsgBox "User cancelled without selecting. Process terminated."
ChDir (strInitialDir)
Exit Sub
End If

strPathAndFile = .SelectedItems(1)
End With

myvalue = InputBox("Enter Unit Name for Output File name", "FILE SAVE NAME")

With ActiveWorkbook
DataSource = .FullName
WordPath = strPathAndFile
wsName = .Sheets("FINANCE MEMO ROSTER").Name
StrName = myvalue
SavePath = .Path & "\"
End With


With WordApp
.Visible = True
.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
Set WordDoc = .Documents.Open(WordPath, AddToRecentFiles:=False)
With WordDoc

'Select Data Source and Complete Mail Merge

With .MailMerge
.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
.OpenDataSource Name:=DataSource, ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False, LinkToSource:=True, _
AddToRecentFiles:=False, PassWordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", WritePassWordDocument:="", _
WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, SubType:=wdMergeSubTypeAccess, _
Connection:="Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;User ID=Admin;Data Source=DataSource;Mode=Read;" & _
"Extended Properties=""HDR=YES;IME", SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `" & wsName & "$`", SQLStatement1:=""
With .DataSource
.FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord
.LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord
.ActiveRecord = wdDefaultActiveRecord
End With
.Execute Pause:=False
End With
.Close SaveChanges:=False
End With
Exit Do



With .ActiveDocument

NewFileName = StrName & " - FINANCE FORM - " & Format(Date, "dd mmm yyyy") & ".docx"
.SaveAs SavePath + NewFileName, FileFormat:=wdFormatXMLDocument, AddToRecentFiles:=False

' and/or:
'.SaveAs SavePath + NewFileName, FileFormat:=wdFormatPDF, AddToRecentFiles:=False

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogPrinterSetup).Show

'.PrintOut

  
    '.Close SaveChanges:=False
End With
.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
.Quit
End With
End Sub
 
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Hi chipsworld,
your solution probably lies in changing the SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM `" & wsName & "$`" part, e.g. adding a WHERE clause. Having said that, your problem is not 100% clear to me:
"When I run the mail merge, it works as it should, but it works on ALL rows...even the ones that have just a function." -> from that I should deduct that there is something that defines the records that you want to use for the mailmerge vs the ones that don't want to use? Please elaborate a bit.
What you could do: record a macro where you manually select the right records, probably with a filter while you are doing the mailmerge, that might give you the right bit of code to update your code.
Cheers,
Koen
 
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Rijnsent,
What I mean by "All Rows" is that it applies the code to the rows that only contain formulas (i.e. blank as formula is an if statement that returns "" is nothing found in source doc.

I am trying to make it stop after the last row that contains an actual name...

What type of WHERE could I include to accommodate for this issue? Never ran into this before.
 
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