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John - 27 Feb 2004 22:46 GMT

Hi all

My query is about the Autotextentry object. Can it be used to represent a mail merge field? What I was thinking about was creating and sending from VB6 a list of Autotextentries to Word XP. Then I wanted to use these entries as mail merge fields in that specific document. Is this possible

Thanks in advance

Peter

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Charles Kenyon - 27 Feb 2004 23:00 GMT

An AutoText entry can contain one or more merge fields. Be sure to use
AutoTextEntries(item).Insert to get it into your document. If you transfer
it through a string, it will lose its field characteristics. (Just found
this out this week, and may have it a bit confused.)

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> Hi all,
>
> My query is about the Autotextentry object. Can it be used to represent a mail merge field? What I was thinking about was creating and sending from

VB6 a list of Autotextentries to Word XP. Then I wanted to use these entries
as mail merge fields in that specific document. Is this possible?

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Peter

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