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Link to pdf from Word doc, then position mail merge fields?

Hello - Is it possible, from a MS Word 2010+ docx, to link to a pdf file (IRS form 1099R, specifically), and position mail merge fields in the form boxes?

I have always done this from MS Access reports in the past, but now I need to do this from Word, so the user can mail merge a 1099R form with a cover letter.

They are not wild about the idea of printing the cover letter from Word, and then printing the 1099R from Access as a separate step.

Thanks

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Rob Henson

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Mark LaGrange

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Rob - yes, at some point (~2000), one of the users made a science project out of laying out what looks to be a Table, on a Word doc, that was very close to the 1099-R form at the time. I've been tasked with updating the 1099-R form layout, for TY 2017, and I would like to do it in the same way it would be done in Access; ie, embedding or linking to a pdf of the 1099-R form through an image control on an Access report.

Rob Henson

Alternatively, do it all in PDF.

I believe the more advanced options from Adobe (ie not just reader) have the option for creating forms into which data can be entered; not sure about the link to a database like mail merge does but would probably be easier to replicate letter as PDF than recreate form in Word.