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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / February 2005Mail Merge Into Word Text Box
I have a Visual Basic .Net applicaiton that is used to setup mail merge fields in a word document. Basically, the app creates menus in Word that allow a user to insert mail merge fields, then when the user saves the document, it records what mail merge fields where used, so a corresponding data document can be created for the letter. My problem is that somehow the mail merge fields that appear within a text box are missing when I iterate through the mail merge fields collection (i.e. MyDocument.MailMerge.Fields). You can reproduce the problem by creating a blank mail merge letter, inserting a text box into the document, then put one or more mail merge fields inside of the text box. The MailMerge.Fields.Count will remain 0. This is a problem because when I later try to actually merge the document, Word informs me that these fields are not in my data document. Is this a bug in Word, or is there another set of Mail Merge fields I need to look for? Any help would be appreciated. Text boxes are not in the text layer of the document and do not work correctly with merge fields within them. Use a frame or a table.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I have a Visual Basic .Net applicaiton that is used to setup mail > merge fields in a word document. Basically, the app creates menus in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > bug in Word, or is there another set of Mail Merge fields I need to > look for? Any help would be appreciated. Graham, Thanks for the help. Do you know of any way to at least detect if a text box contains one or more merge fields? They way my app is setup, users pretty much have full control over where they insert the merge fields. If possible, I'd like a way to controls this behavoir, to avoid possible errors when the merge is exectuted. Thanks again. > Text boxes are not in the text layer of the document and do not work > correctly with merge fields within them. Use a frame or a table. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > bug in Word, or is there another set of Mail Merge fields I need to > > look for? Any help would be appreciated. Frankly no - though a macro to convert text boxes to frames might work Sub BoxToFrame() Dim oShp As Shape For Each oShp In ActiveDocument.Shapes oShp.ConvertToFrame Next oShp End Sub Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Graham, > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >>> bug in Word, or is there another set of Mail Merge fields I need to >>> look for? Any help would be appreciated. Graham, Thanks again. > Frankly no - though a macro to convert text boxes to frames might work > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > >>> bug in Word, or is there another set of Mail Merge fields I need to > >>> look for? Any help would be appreciated. |
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