Bookmarks will not survive the execution of a mailmerge. Instead of using
them, just insert the mergefields in the other locations at which you want
the data to appear.

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"Brian" wrote in message
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Hello,

I posted this in another forum before I saw this one, so please excuse
the re-post.

I have an application using OLE built in PowerBuilder that does a mail
merge
using Word 2003. I am using bookmarks to insert things like first
name, last name, address, etc. This works fine if I only want to merge

each bookmark once. After reading many of these posts I discovered
that what I want to do is then cross reference that bookmark any number

of times.


However, I am unable to get the bookmarks to print anytime other than
the first. I have a bookmark named fname. My original bookmark prints

fine as "Charlie". However, when I cross reference to fname and run
the merge, my second instance displays "fname". I have tried the ctrl
+ A and F9 trick and right clicked on the new reference and clicked
update, and still no luck.


Is the problem that Word cannot cross reference to a value that is
programmatically set? I have clicked tools | options | print | update
fields, but no luck.


Any ideas?


Thanks,
Brian