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8.3

My inserted field is not passed on into my mail-merged document

Asked by hikerDax in Microsoft Word

Tags: Microsoft, Word, 2007, Mail Merge, document field insert

I'm having a strange problem, and I can't figure out if it's a bug or a feature. I am creating mailing labels with mail merge. I've created a header in my source document, with the FileName field in it, which I will use to identify the labels when I print them out later. I also put the SaveDate field in there as well.

What happens is, when I finish merging my data into the file, and use Finish & Merge | Edit Individual Documents to create an output file, the FileName in the header is not passed as a *field* -- it's passed as plain text, and hence has the name of the mailmerge document I started from. I would have thought the reason for this is that MailMerge will simply translate all "fields" into "values" -- except that the date field is intact.

This is *not* the same problem as fields not getting updated -- I can't update the field in the new document because it's not a field. It's just text.

I'm running this from a macro, but I get the same result from using Word by hand. See my code snippet below. Anyone ever heard of this before?



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Sub SaveMergeResults()
'
' SaveMergeResults Macro
' Saves the merge results to a document whose default name is taken from the data source's name.
'
Dim docMerge As Document
 
    Set docMerge = ActiveDocument
    With docMerge.MailMerge
        .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
        .SuppressBlankLines = True
        With .DataSource
            .FirstRecord = wdDefaultFirstRecord
            .LastRecord = wdDefaultLastRecord
        End With
        .Execute Pause:=False
    End With
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=docMerge.MailMerge.DataSource.Name & ".doc", FileFormat:=wdFormatDocument
    Windows(docMerge.Name).Activate
    
End Sub
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Tags: Microsoft, Word, 2007, Mail Merge, document field insert
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