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GB - 19 Apr 2004 21:51 GMT

I am having a problem with mailmerging in Word 6.0a. I hope this is the
right place to ask?

I have included the filename field in my mailmerge master document. The idea
is that this will get carried over to the new merged document, and print the
name of the *new document* on the page. The problem I have is that during
the mailmerge process this field gets replaced by the name of the master
document. I have tried it both with and without the update fields on
printing box ticked in options.

This is not quite the place to ask this question as the field I am having
trouble with is not strictly a mailmerge field, but hopefully you won't all
mind too much.

Thanks

Geoff

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GB - 19 Apr 2004 22:02 GMT

Sorry - I should have Googled FIRST.

FWIW, the answer appears to be (as provided by Peter Jamieson):-

Not that I know of, but what you can do is:
a. create another document (e.g. fn.doc
b. put your { filename \p } field in there
c. put an { INCLUDETEXT "c:\\whatever\\fn.doc" } field in your mail merge
main document.

The includetext field is preserved during the merge, and when you update the
fields post-merge, fortunately the FILENAME field returns the file name of
the containing document, not "fn.doc".

Sorry to have wasted your bandwidth

Geoff

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- 20 Apr 2004 13:35 GMT

Hi Geoff

If you open headers and footers and use the toolbar Insert
Auto text - Filename, this should then show the filename
of the Merged document. However I am trying this in Word
2003 and it is not working!

T

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