Thank you Peter for responding. I am using Word 2003 for Mail Merge and the
same for my datasource typed in a table. The colum heading is titled "Name"
where Ms. Wall is the data. If I click the Greeting Line icon and ask to
match fields, it will still say "Dear Sir or Madam". I tried your f9
suggestion and got the same thing you did. I understand that it will default
to "Dear Sir or Madam," if the field is blank, but most fields are filled in.
The preview shows "Dear Mr. Randall,"
Sincerely
Julie Love
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
1. It works OK here with a variety of titles, i.e. "Ms." behaves the same
as ""Mr." "Mrs." etc. That's with Word 2003 and data coming from Outlook
2003.
2. Which version of Word are you using? What is your data source?
3. If the data source is Outlook, are you iitiating the merge from Outlook,
or from Word?
4. If there is a field called "Title" in your data source, and you insert
that as an "INdividual" merge field, e.g. press F9 to give you a pair of
special "field braces", then type MERGEFIELD Title in between so you end up
with
{ MERGEFIELD Title }
what do you see when you preview the data and you are expecting "Ms."? What
do you see for "Mr." etc.?
4. if you press alt-F9 so you can see the "code" for your GREETINGLINE
field, what do you see?
e.g. here I have
{ GREETINGLINE \f "_BEFORE_ _TITLE0_ _LAST0_
_AFTER_ ," \l 2057 \e "Dear Sir or Madam," }
Peter Jamieson
"Julie Love" Julie wrote in message
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I can not get the Greeting Line to say "Dear Ms. Wall". It will say "Ms.
Wall" or "Dear Sir or Madam".