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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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On reflection, I'm probably wrong. It occurs to me that it is some other
fields (such as CreateDate) that don't work in the headers/footers of merge
documents. In any case, it's not clear that the OP is referring to merge
fields.

The KB article "WD2000: Fields in Header and Footer Not Merged in E-Mail
Attachment" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=214165) certainly implies
that merge fields in the header and footer usually do work.

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"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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Hmm... I use mailmerge fields in footers and they work for me. (Word 2003)

Of course my use of merge is a bit different. I do not actually do a

merge.
I connect to the database, find my record, and display the merged data on
screen. I then print out from the merged screen. Don't know if that makes

a
difference.

On the other hand, if we are talking about the mergeformat switch in

fields,
I tend to avoid it and use a charformat switch instead.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Merge fields can't be used in headers.

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"kharrison" wrote in message
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I have a merge format field in a header and the body of the document.

Since
upgrading to Word 2003 the field is not updating automatically in the

header.

Any suggestions as to why and how I can work around this?

Thanks for any assistance.

kh