Text field lost in merge

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Robert McN - 12 Mar 2007 18:51 GMT

I used the forms tool bar to add a text form field in a mail merge form.
What appears is a series of little circles and a gray background. Normally,
if you add something to that field, it will disappear being replace by
whatever content is added. However, when I added this field to a mail merge
form and then produced the merged letter, the field is lost and what appears
is a number of spaces. Can I do something to keep the grayed field in the
merged letter?
Thank you for any thoughts.

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Peter Jamieson - 12 Mar 2007 19:19 GMT

See

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211308

If you have problems with the code, there was a recent discussion about some
of the code in the article in a conversation in this forum titled
"Protection & SpellCheck in Merged Forms"

Peter Jamieson

>I used the forms tool bar to add a text form field in a mail merge form.
> What appears is a series of little circles and a gray background.
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> merged letter?
> Thank you for any thoughts.

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