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Caroline
 
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Default Macros and AutoTextLists in Mail Merge Document

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Im trying to set out about 70 standard letters for my team at work, the
information being merged out from a CSV files created by our data processing
programme. As part of this I need to additionally put in some AutoTestLists.
After a scary amount of battling and constantly looking back to The Word MVP
Site, Ive managed to set this up, and make the files so I could distribute
them to the rest of the team.

Sadly, some of the team dont have good IT skills and find remembering to
right click over the AutoTextLists *before* the merge the documents a little
hard because they dont really understand how it works. Ideally what I would
like to do is create a Macro that runs on opening that goes between each
AutoTextList and prompts the user to select the right entry, then merges the
document to a new file. Unfortunately this is a little more complex then I
can think my way round.

If I dont use macros. Is there any other way round this? And if I do use
macros, any suggestions as to how to do this or where else to look for
information.

Any help would be greatly received. Im about ready to rip my hair out!