Removing all Mailmerge fields

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Perry48 - 22 Oct 2007 17:26 GMT

I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

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Peter Jamieson - 22 Oct 2007 17:51 GMT

Make a backup copy of your document before trying this.

Select the entire body of the document (e.g. ctrl-A), and "unlink" the
fields using ctrl-shift-F9. Most field codes will be replaced by their
results. If you need to do headers and footers as well, you need a bit of
VBA to loop around everything.

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>I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
> keep the text.
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> ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

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Perry48 - 22 Oct 2007 18:14 GMT

That is so simple - I wonder why I couldn't find it in the commands or
anywhere in help. I can just use Find & Replace then to also remove the <<
& >> characters.

ThankYouVeryMuch Peter,
Perry

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