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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / February 2004Table of contents can't be merged
Hi, I have a VB6 program that performes a MailMerge. But if my template contains a Table of contents, it will loose all references when merged. I read something about problem with FormFields in the knowledgebase article Q211308, but I can't make it work. The solution was to loop through all FormFields and store them temporary, and restore them after the MailMerge. But in my case the document doesn't contain any text FormFields, just TOC fields. Please, does anybody have a clue? There are two basic problems with merging a TOC: a. the TOC field is lost - at best, you will see a copy of the /result/ of the TOC field, possibly including Hyperlinks (each "copy" of the TOC will convert to exactly the same text and destination bookmarks) b. all bookmarks are in any case lost, so any hyperlinks wil point to non-existent destinations. However, since paragraph styles and TC fields are both preserved, you could re-insert the necessary TOC field(s) after the merge (perhaps use some placeholder text or a field that survies the merge to tell you where to put the TOC), then refresh the document fields. This is obviously easier if you know what type of TOC field should be in there - if you are trying to write a generic mailmerger so that anyone's TOC survives the process, you would probably have to use VB to a. get the existing TOC field code b. replace the TOC by placeholder text or whatever c. proceed as above. You would probably also need to know whether th user wanted one TOC, or one TOC per section , in the final output. -- Peter Jamieson - Word MVP Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/ > Hi, > I have a VB6 program that performes a MailMerge. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Please, does anybody have a clue? It's something like that I tried, but I can't seem to copy the content back into the field, I get a "type mismatch" error when assigning a string to Field.Code. What kind of data should it be? >-----Original Message----- >There are two basic problems with merging a TOC: [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >. It's a range. oField.Code.Text = "TOC etc." should do it, or specify the text when you invoke oDoc.Fields.Add -- Peter Jamieson - Word MVP Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/ It's something like that I tried, but I can't seem to copy the content back into the field, I get a "type mismatch" error when assigning a string to Field.Code. What kind of data should it be? >-----Original Message----- >There are two basic problems with merging a TOC: > a. the TOC field is lost - at best, you will see a copy of the /result/ of >the TOC field, possibly including Hyperlinks (each "copy" of the TOC will >convert to exactly the same text and destination bookmarks) > b. all bookmarks are in any case lost, so any hyperlinks wil point to >non-existent destinations. > >However, since paragraph styles and TC fields are both preserved, you could >re-insert the necessary TOC field(s) after the merge (perhaps use some >placeholder text or a field that survies the merge to tell you where to put >the TOC), then refresh the document fields. This is obviously easier if you >know what type of TOC field should be in there - if you are trying to write >a generic mailmerger so that anyone's TOC survives the process, you would >probably have to use VB to > a. get the existing TOC field code > b. replace the TOC by placeholder text or whatever > c. proceed as above. You would probably also need to know whether th user >wanted one TOC, or one TOC per section , in the final output. >-- >Peter Jamieson - Word MVP [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> I have a VB6 program that performes a MailMerge. >> But if my template contains a Table of contents, it will >> loose all references when merged. >> I read something about problem with FormFields in the >> knowledgebase article Q211308, but I can't make it work. >> The solution was to loop through all FormFields and store >> them temporary, and restore them after the MailMerge. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >. |
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