Why do my custom Word reports keep repeating the same candidates?

The cause of the multiple lines for the same person is usually ‘multivalued’ items; fields where more than one value could be stored like education, pipeline statuses, addresses, languages, etc.

To get these to work, you need to either 

• Just select the first item in the list by adding #*#1 before the closing bracket in the field name (you can include more items by changing it to #*#2, #*#3, etc).  For example, ${candidates.pipelineTags.text#*#1} will just give the most recent pipeline status.
• Or put the field names into their own table, inside the table row you are using for the candidates.  This will then add a row to this ‘mini-table’ for every repeated row that the record has.  

For example (to show all the education items the candidate has):