I think I did what you described but it didn't work any better than using a
Fill-in. I put an Ask field in the top left hand corner of the first label,
then put a Ref field that referred to the new bookmark in the desired place
in the top left label. Then, I created an identical Ref field on the second
label and propagated this second Ref field to the remaining labels. I
_assume_ that Propagate Labels propagates the contents of the second label
if my cursor is in the second label when I click the button. But I'm not
sure how to tell if the Ask field is present on each of the labels or just
the first one: the Ask leaves no visible mark on any label to tell me that
it is there!

When I "Merge to New Document", I get prompted for the value of my Ask value
on every label, just like I did with Fill-in. The correct value appears in
the dialog each time so I just need to click OK each time rather than typing
in the value each time but it's very tedious nonetheless.

Perhaps I'm asking too much of Word! Or perhaps there's a much better way to
do what I want to do.

My labels aren't really labels in the sense of sticky things that you apply
to an envelope, for instance. I'm actually creating membership cards for a
club I belong to. The cards are being printed on Avery 8317 business card
sheets so I have been assuming that I should be using label-handling
techniques to generate them.

However, unlike a regular business card which has the same information on
every card, my membership cards have a different name on each one. This has
been easy to handle by merging the labels with a new list that I created in
Access and connected to the document via the Mail Merge wizard. The tricky
part seems to be putting the year on each card. I'd like the Mail Merge to
prompt me ONCE for which year it is, then have that year appear in the
appropriate place on each label/card. Also, since our membership year runs
from July one year to June the next, I want to show the next year on each
card as well, so the card looks like this:

MY BIG FAT BOOK CLUB
<logo>
John Doe
July 2006 - June 2007

Therefore, each card has the same last line on it. But next year, when I
generate the next batch of cards, the last line should read "July 2007 -
June 2008". And the year after that, the last line should be "July 2008 -
June 2009". etc. You get the picture.

That's why I want the current year and next year values to be prompted at
the start of the merge: they will be different for each batch of cards.

Can you suggest any way I can do this? Or will I need to put the current
year and next year in each label and then remember to do a "replace all" for
both values before I run the cards each year? That's bearable I suppose but
I was hoping to be a little more elegant than that; I'd like this document
to work for the foreseeable future with the user only required to enter the
current year and the next year once for each batch of cards.

It would be even slicker if I could determine the current year by
interrogating the system and then using that value as the current year, then
add one to that value and use that as the next year value. But even if I
could imbed the current year in each label, I'm dubious about whether there
is a way to calculate the next year so that it too could be imbedded in the
label. Then again, I'm still pretty new to Word so I would be delighted if
you proved me wrong!

Any suggestions for how I can accomplish what I want to do?

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Rhino