I'd prefer a slightly less simple answer, e.g. that in the English language
version of Office, Microsoft did not ensure that the field name generated by
Outlook's Mail merge option would be automatically matched in Word. I have
no idea why they did not get this right in the first place and why they have
not fixed it either in Word 2003 or one of the SPs. It would be interesting
to know whether the same problem occurs in other language versions of
Office.

Peter Jamieson

"Michael Krause" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply, and the script. So the simple answer is that
Microsoft didn't set the field names to match between Microsoft Word and
Outlook, thus explaining the discrepency requiring manual intervention.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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The only way I have found to do this is to fix the field name in the Word
document that Outlook exports when you initiate your merge from Oulook
(assuming that's what you're doing. I wrote the following code a while
ago and you would probably have to create a toolbar button and run it
manually once Outlook has opened the merge main document.

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