Merging a picture from a URL

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Rendezvous - 14 May 2008 19:52 GMT

I am trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 and the data source is Excel. In
one of the fields in Excel, I have a URL that points to a picture. If I
insert this field into my Word Doc, it displays the URL but I would like to
have the picture show up instead.

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Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Doug

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 14 May 2008 20:19 GMT

See the "Graphics from data base" item under the "Special merges" section of
fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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