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Michelle
 
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Default Inserting Mail Merge Fields

I went on Cindy's site and looked up "Display list of merge fields in a
non-modal dialog box" where she says to drag the macro
"DisplayListOfMergeFields" to the toolbar. I am in 2003 and there is no such
macro. Help! I have literally hundreds of merge codes to insert into dozens
of documents - and using "Insert Merge Code" the old fashioned way just won't
cut it. Any ideas please?

"Sue Hughes" wrote:

Thank you Doug,
This will be a big time saver. Just a wonder, 'why in the world did MS do
that?'. No reply expected. ;-)

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

That's the way they designed it - Crazy. But two things you can do. Go to
fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm

and you will find a version of the dialog that you do not have to close each
time, or, from the Tools menu, select Customize and then go to the Commands
tab and select the All Commands category and then locate the Insert Merge
Fields item and click and drag it onto a toolbar. I would suggest that you
turn on the display of the Mailmerge toolbar (ViewToolbars) and at it to
that. You will then be able to insert the mergefields in the same way as
was done in Word before XP.


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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Sue Hughes" wrote in message
...
Upgrading to Word 2003, I can't believe I need to Insert a field and close
the dialog box, just to move to another location of the document, and
repeat
all the steps again.
What am I missing???