Save your template.
Create and save your custom toolbar in your template. Make sure it is to
your template, not normal.dot.
Use File New to create a new document from your template. Attach a data
source. Perform your merge to a document.
Your new merged document will be attached to your template.
Note, for merges for one record, I skip the merge to a document and simply
lock the merge fields and save with the appropriate data being displayed.
I don't use the merge wizard for actually doing merges so I don't have a
solution for you on use of that tool.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Doug Lowe" wrote in message
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Is there a way to do a mail merge to a new document, and specify the
template the new document (the one with the merged letters) should be
based on?
For example, if I use the merge wizard & start from an existing template,
then merge to a new document, the new document is based on Normal.dot, not
the template I started from.
I want to provide a simple custom toolbar for the merged document, but
don't want to put the toolbar in normal.dot.
Thanks!