solution, which is to see if the "non-printing" character checkboxes are
activated. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that option.

Tools | Options | View: Formatting marks (in recent versions)

I'm not sure how this relates to your problem. Alt+F9 would display field
codes if any were present.

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"J_Gold" wrote in message
...
Hi Suzanne,

Actually believe I am having the same problem, but with a slight twist.
In my
case I created a mail merge template with a graphic and saved it. When I
open
the merged document I get the message "Opening This Will Run the Following
SQL
Command", I click ok, and all the merged info is in the document (BTW, I
checked the resulting merge document for fields and there aren't any).
However,
two other people have also tried to open the merged file, one gets the SQL
message, the other doesn't, but in both cases, they only see the graphic
in the
merged document.

I have posted this puzzle in the word.docmanagement group (subject
template
woes). My apologies for cross-posting, but when I saw this thread, the
problem
seemed very similar to the one I am having. Cindy Meister has offered a
solution, which is to see if the "non-printing" character checkboxes are
activated. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that option.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had the same issue - and
found a
solution. g

Cheers,

Jason

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Most of my merge documents were created in earlier Word versions, too,
so I
think that's probably a red herring. All I can say is that I get the
message
box only on mail merge main documents, not on the merged results. Sorry
I
can't offer any other ideas (especially since I just noticed it's you,
Mark
g).

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"Mark Tangard" wrote in message
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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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post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Tangard"
wrote in message
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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