[oli merge]

perhaps I should add that whatever I do it always puts my first label as the
default phone picture, regardless of whether it has its own picture or not.

"oli merge" wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to make product labels with individual pictures in Word (again
lol). I have done this before with the help of this forum and so am familiar
with the issues and workarounds that are common and are dealt with on Graham
M's helpful site.

I am using the method of {INCLUDEPICTURE {MERGEFIELD "PhotoPath"
}\*MERGEFORMAT} as the picture and Photopath as a column in my excel
spreadsheet that contains the rest of the product info. The field contains
the path is in exactly the following format: C:\\Documents and
Settings\\oliver.merge\\My Documents\\PWC photo labels\\pics\\PWC_FRS010.jpg

Problem is that this time I just cant get the pictures to appear where they
should. I have 10 labels to a page, and on my original excel file the first
picture is missing, so would be C:\\Documents and Settings\\oliver.merge\\My
Documents\\PWC photo labels\\pics\\.jpg

This first file being missing seemed to cause word to pick a default image,
which happens to be a picture of a telephone I took ages ago. So this phone
image appeared in the first label, followed by the rest of the labels in the
correct place.

So far so good, I then decided I want to leave out the items with no photo,
and firstly tried deselecting them in the select merge recipients thing. This
had the effect of updating the text elements correctly, but leaving the
pictures as they are, keeping in the default phone picture and so having the
pics lined up against the wrong products.

I tried select all F9 and merging to a new document, I get various incorrect
results such as all pictures being the default phone one, all pictures
disappearing and all records changing to be the first one. I see when
pressing alt F9 that its changed the mergefield part in the INCLUDEPICTURE
command to an absolute path and so tried starting again with a brand new
INCLUDEPICTURE command with the mergefield photopath put back in. No good,
same problem.

I then tried making a brand new excel workbook with all products that are
missing pictures taken out and merged from that instead. No good, exactly the
same problem, still has the default images in where they would be if I merged
from the original data. I have tried deleting the INCLUDEPICTURE thing and
inserting a brand new one and its just ignoring me and putting the default
phone picture in again.

Im completely baffled, in fact I cant even find where the phone picture is
on my harddrive to see what happens if I delete it so I have no idea where
how or why word is finding it.

As I say, I managed to get this to work a few months ago but now am
completely stuck. The only difference is I am now using WORD 2003 instead of
2000.

please please help!