[Graham Mayor]

Ah! I had forgotten about that. I must put a note on my web page

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Andy wrote:
Oli;

A few months ago I had almost the same hassle as You.

Pasting the back and forth, hope it helps.

Andy

Posted this 12/26/06

Hi Andy,

The problem is in Tools/Options/General/Web options/Files. Deactivate
the option to automatically update links when saving. That will stop
Word from making the changes to the field code.

Had been using Word 2000 for a mail merge from Access 2000 and the
this code
worked correctly in Word 2000:
{IncludePicture "c:\\Program Files\\My
Program\\ProductPictures\\{MERGEFIELD
ProductCategory}{ProductSubCategory}{ProductName}. jpg"}

What the code does is pull a photo of the Product.
Note: The photos are named using the Category: Clothing,
Sub-Category: Woman, and ProductName: Shoes.
Example: ClothingWomanShoes.jpg

A query with a criteria in Access generates the merge using the
information
the user has displayed on the screen.

A command button then executes the merge.
Everything worked correctly until we started using Word 2002 on one
computer.

The code changes to:
{IncludePicture "../../../program%20files/My
Program//ProductPictures/ClothingWomansShoes.jpg" \*
MERGEFORMATINNET} The Double Backslashes are replaced by the above.

Tried doing it manually. It works at first but when the document is
saved it changes from:
{IncludePicture "C:\\Program Files\\My
Program\\ProductPictures\\{MERGEFIELD
ProductCategory}{MERGEFIELD ProductSubCategory}{MERGEFIELD
ProductName}.jpg"}
To:
{IncludePicture "../../../program%20files/My
Program//ProductPictures/ClothingWomansShoes.jpg" \*
MERGEFORMATINNET} With the first example the code is dynamic and shows
the correct
picture, with the second it is static and calls for a specific
picture "ClothingWomansShoes.jpg" and doesn't show any graphic at
all. It only shows a "Place Holder" where the photo should be.

Tried the resolution from Microsoft:
Example:
{INCLUDEPICTURE {MERGEFIELD "Picture"} \*MERGEFORMAT}
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/114306/en-us
And
Example: { IncludePicture "C:\\Data\\Pics\\{ Mergefield Signature \*
upper }" }
From: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm
And quite a few more.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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"oli merge" wrote in message
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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!