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treel - 02 Nov 2004 05:45 GMT

I have a main document set up with drop-down form field and (using the forms
toolbar) and text form fields. Whenever I do a mail merge, the new merged
document has removed all of the text form fields. How do I prevent this from
happening?

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Doug Robbins - 02 Nov 2004 11:31 GMT

See the Knowledge Base article:

WD2000: Text Form Fields Are Not Retained During Mail Merge
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=211308

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>I have a main document set up with drop-down form field and (using the
>forms
> toolbar) and text form fields. Whenever I do a mail merge, the new merged
> document has removed all of the text form fields. How do I prevent this
> from
> happening?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 02 Nov 2004 11:37 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?dHJlZWw=?=,

> I have a main document set up with drop-down form field and (using the forms
> toolbar) and text form fields. Whenever I do a mail merge, the new merged
> document has removed all of the text form fields.

This is by design. See this article for a workaround

WD2000: Text Form Fields Are Not Retained During Mail Merge
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=211308

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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