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T. Brown T. Brown is offline
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Default mail merge field appears gray when merged and then prints the

I'll remember to do that in the future. Thank you again!

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Sounds like you are not actually executing the merge, but are just printing
a preview of the results.

Turn on the mailmerge toolbar by selecting Toolbars from the View menu and
then check the mail merge item and then use the button towards the right
hand end of the toolbar to execute the merge to the printer.

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Hope this helps.

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"T. Brown" T. wrote in message
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I am hoping someone can help me on this. When I put together a merged
letter
it works fine. All of the merged information appears in a gray box.
Next,
when I am attempting to print the letter the gray shading will also print.
I
have tried everything to get the gray not to print. Can anyone help me on
this, please? Thank you.