Sorry Kory and Graham, neither suggestion worked. I tried turning off the "Update automatic links at Open" in Tools|Options|General and I tried implementing the tactics mentioned in the article 813914 referred to by Kory. I tried that even though I am not using a shared drive, just the C: hard drive
When in put {INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\{MERGEFIELD Path}" \MERGEMORMAT} in my main merge document and save it, it changes to {INCLUDEPICTURE signature.tif" \MERGEMORMATINET} where "signature.tif" is the file name of the first record in the Access table that I'm merging to
How could they get it right in Word 97 and Word 2000 and get it so wrong in WordXP
But I did find a kludge: if I put double quotes like so -- ""C:\{Mergefield Path}"" then it will save without updating. The only problem is that the INCLUDEPICTURE reports "invalid file name". HOWEVER, when I merge it to a new document, the MERGEFIELD expands correctly, though it still is encased in double quotes. A search and replace for "" with " and then a CTRL-A and F9 to update correctly displays the graphics. Now to write a macro to do the search and replace and the update fields!!
Unchecking Word Tools|Options|General|Web Options|"Update links on save"
seems to do the trick here. Irritating that Web-related options affect
non-web docs but there you go.
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> Sorry Kory and Graham, neither suggestion worked. I tried turning off the "Update automatic links at Open" in Tools|Options|General and I tried
implementing the tactics mentioned in the article 813914 referred to by
Kory. I tried that even though I am not using a shared drive, just the C:
hard drive.
> When in put {INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\{MERGEFIELD Path}" \MERGEMORMAT} in my main merge document and save it, it changes to {INCLUDEPICTURE
signature.tif" \MERGEMORMATINET} where "signature.tif" is the file name of
the first record in the Access table that I'm merging to.
> How could they get it right in Word 97 and Word 2000 and get it so wrong in WordXP?
>
> But I did find a kludge: if I put double quotes like so -- ""C:\{Mergefield Path}"" then it will save without updating. The only
problem is that the INCLUDEPICTURE reports "invalid file name". HOWEVER,
when I merge it to a new document, the MERGEFIELD expands correctly, though
it still is encased in double quotes. A search and replace for "" with "
and then a CTRL-A and F9 to update correctly displays the graphics. Now to
write a macro to do the search and replace and the update fields!!