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Jan - 21 Jan 2005 18:25 GMT

We have many mail merge templates with out letterhead. To avoid having to
update every template when information changes on the letterhead, I have
inserted an Include Text field that points to a file letterhead.doc. This
file only has the letterhead information. I change the information here, and
then it updates to all the merge templates. Or at least it used to. For
some reason it stopped doing it, and now I have to go to each template and do
an Edit Select All and F9. We have over 50 workstations accessing these
merge templates all using different versions of Word as we always have. Is
there some setting I am missing?

Thanks

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Graham Mayor - 22 Jan 2005 06:47 GMT

The simplest plan may be to add update macros to the templates. I assume
that you don't want old documents to be updated, so create the code in
autonew macros - you will find sample code and instructions for use at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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> We have many mail merge templates with out letterhead. To avoid
> having to update every template when information changes on the
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> Thanks

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