If you are getting that message, then what you think are mail merge
fields are probably not mail merge fields!
Try entering them like this:
a. Delete whatever is in cell 1 of your table.
b. Put the insertion point in cell 1.
c. press ctrl-F9 to enter a pair of the special field code braces {}
(you cannot just type these on the keyboard)
d. put the insertion point between the {}
e. type MERGEFIELD email
so you end up with
{ MERGEFIELD email }
f. do the same in cell 2 except use the name "file" instead of "email"
Then try the directory merge again.
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
Abhishek Dadu wrote:
Hello,
I am getting the following error while creating - Directory mail merge main
document - in Word 2007: "Mail merge cannot be completed as becasue the
document does not contain mail merge fields"
I have used a 2 column "Directory Source.xls" as my data source and also
created a 2x1 table in the Word document with merge field "email" in the
first (left) cell of the table & "file" in the second (right) cell of the
table.
Error popping up when merging "To new document..." and confirming you want
all records to be merged.
Thanks, Abhishek.