I am not really sure what you are doing, but why don't you start with the
letter head in the mailmerge main document and then just use mergefields in
the normal way to populate the address and salutation details when the
letter is merged.

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"James" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am trying to set up a letter head. This letter head contains text boxes
that arrange the address and salutation details etc. I would like to be
able
to merge this letterhead into the Header of my Letter, and then use a
mailmerge to populate the MERGEFIELD data in the textboxes.

I am using an INSERTTEXT to pull in the letterhead to the header of my
letter, but for some reason when I do this Word drops the MERGEFIELDs
leaving
ordinary text, thus when the Mailmerge occurs, the header is not populated
with the details, just left with the text used to identify the fields.

What I am hoping to find out is, if I can manage to get the text boxes to
retain there MERGEFIELDs through the INSERTTEXT ? If not is there a way
around it that you know of ? If not then do you know how to reference
frames
by name ? i.e so that I can change there values from code like you can
with
textboxes.

Sorry for the long post, hope someone is able to help as I am really stuck

Cheers, James