With your existing mail merge main document, which you have protected to
allow only the filling in of forms as the active document, in your case, as
your data source is from Access, you would run a macro containing the code
under the heading on the website of Access Data Source.
If you do not know what to do with the code under that heading, see the
following page of that website
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Chris Thacker" wrote in message
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Thank you for the assistance Doug and were I smart enough to understand
what
the link is explaining it might well work. However the instructions for a
lay person such as myself kind of go over my head. There was not enough
specific instruction on how to set up the document in the linked page for
me
to execute the process as described on MVP Graham Mayor's website.
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
See the article €śCombining FormFields and Mail Merge€ť on the following
page
of fellow MVP Graham Mayors website:
http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm
If that information is of use to you, please do consider contributing to
the
maintenance of that website to ensure its continued availability.
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I have created a document that merges with an Access Database. In that
document I have inserted several 'merged' fields. In addition to the
merged
fields I have inserted several legacy controls including a drop list,
check
box, and text fields. When I merge the document with a particular
record
from my database, then edit that specific document I find that although
my
check box and drop list controls move over to the new merged document
along
with the data from the database, the legacy text box is stripped from
the
master document. I am able to insert an active x text field, and
protect
the
new document to be used as a form but am not able to format or control
the
text box behavior so that it will grow with the amount of text entered
or
be
limited to a text only field, date format field, or a numeric only
field
as I
could with the legacy text control. Is there a way to merge a document
with
legacy controls that does not lose the text box?