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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / November 2004MergeFields Count (TextBox)
Hi, I have a macro that searches through a document for MergeFields, storing the fieldnames in an array. I first switch on fieldcodes view, and view page header/footer before searching - this seems to work fine. My problem is that when textboxes have MergeFields in them, they are not found. Even when I use the command: ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields.Count it doesn't include them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Hi Craig, The problem is that text boxes are located in the "Drawing layer" of the document, and much of Word's built-in functionality doesn't recognize anything in this layer. Best would probably be to convert the text boxes into Frames (Textbox tab of the Format text box dialog box). If you can't do this for some reason (linked text boxes, for example) then you'll need to look at the articles on using Find on the word.mvps.org website. When using a macro to "Find", you need to loop through the relevant document "stories". > I have a macro that searches through a document for MergeFields, storing the > fieldnames in an array. I first switch on fieldcodes view, and view page [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > found. Even when I use the command: > ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields.Count it doesn't include them. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thank you very much for your help Cindy, StoryRanges has indeed done the trick. Regards Craig > Hi Craig, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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