What I have discovered is that if I do this, then change my header.doc, the
Header in the letter is still showing the old header until I right click the
IncludeText bracket and Select UpdateField. This takes longer than actually
copying the new header into each letter. Is there some way I can get around
this. For example, can I run an Update Field on that IncludeText when the
letter is opened? I am not into programming in Word, so any reply will have
to be detailed I'm afraid.

dixie

"dixie" wrote in message
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I have a group of roughly 100 letters that are the subjects of mail merges.
I have to put a different letter header on each of these letters for each
different organisation that uses them. It takes an hour to do it. I have
been fiddling around with INCLUDETEXT and have found that if I add
{INCLUDETEXT "Header.doc"} as the first thing in the letter and then place
the letter header in a file called Header.doc in the same folder as the
mail merge template, it works. Am I doing this correctly, it just seems
too easy!

dixie