I actually considered that, but there are no fields in the result. They're all
pretty simple docs, mostly catalog, oops############# directory merges. The
only quirk, if it is one, is that the merge main doc is created from a template,
rather than from a plain, assembled-on-the-fly collection of merge fields,
because we want a very specific format in the output (certain lines bolder and
different font sizes) and the field structure is a bit complex (if firstname=""
bold the company name, blah blah). The template isn't ancient but was created
in a pre-2003 version of Word. Hmm.

MT

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
That puzzled me, too, as none of my merged documents do this. Are you sure
the document you're looking at doesn't contain merge fields? Sometimes this
isn't obvious, because Word will populate the fields with data from one of
the records even in a mail merge main document. Alt+F9 should show you the
fields if any are present.

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Thanks, Suzanne, that helps. I'm still not clear on why you'd ever want

the

datasource attached once you've done the merge (this is a merged-results
document, not a merge main document), unless it actually would redo the

merge

with (presumably) some difference/update in the data.

MT

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:

I think you're misinterpreting the message, but see "Opening This Will

Run

the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a Word Document
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825765