[Dave C]

I am designing a mail merge form where I need the user to input an
individual's manager's name. I'd be grateful to know how to include a merge
field in the fillin field prompt so the prompt says ... "please enter the
manager's name for ...mergename

Thanks

[Graham Mayor]

It would be better if you amended the data source to include the managers'
names, however what I suspect you are looking for is

{ ASK mName "Insert the manager's name for { MERGEFIELD Namefield }" }
which will prompt for each record. Reproduce the name in the document with a
REf field {REF mName}

Use CTRL+F9 for the bracket pairs and choose the appropriate fieldname freom
your data source in place of 'Namefield'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
I am designing a mail merge form where I need the user to input an
individual's manager's name. I'd be grateful to know how to include a
merge field in the fillin field prompt so the prompt says ... "please
enter the manager's name for ...mergename

Thanks

[Dave C]

Thanks for your reponse Graham.
I'm afraid I'm having difficulty with the merge field pulling into the
prompt. I'm putting the following into the prompt box when adding the ask
field, but exactly the same text is being displyed to the user when the
document document is opened, rather than the data contained in the merge
field.

{ ASK LineManager "Please enter the name of the line manager for {
MERGEFIELD PERS_KNOWN_AS }" }

Any help will again be gratefully received.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It would be better if you amended the data source to include the managers'
names, however what I suspect you are looking for is

{ ASK mName "Insert the manager's name for { MERGEFIELD Namefield }" }
which will prompt for each record. Reproduce the name in the document with a
REf field {REF mName}

Use CTRL+F9 for the bracket pairs and choose the appropriate fieldname freom
your data source in place of 'Namefield'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
I am designing a mail merge form where I need the user to input an
individual's manager's name. I'd be grateful to know how to include a
merge field in the fillin field prompt so the prompt says ... "please
enter the manager's name for ...mergename

Thanks

[Graham Mayor]

You haven't used CTRL+F9 for the brackets {} around MERGEFIELD
PERS_KNOWN_AS.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
Thanks for your reponse Graham.
I'm afraid I'm having difficulty with the merge field pulling into the
prompt. I'm putting the following into the prompt box when adding the
ask field, but exactly the same text is being displyed to the user
when the document document is opened, rather than the data contained
in the merge field.

{ ASK LineManager "Please enter the name of the line manager for {
MERGEFIELD PERS_KNOWN_AS }" }

Any help will again be gratefully received.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It would be better if you amended the data source to include the
managers' names, however what I suspect you are looking for is

{ ASK mName "Insert the manager's name for { MERGEFIELD Namefield
}" } which will prompt for each record. Reproduce the name in the
document with a REf field {REF mName}

Use CTRL+F9 for the bracket pairs and choose the appropriate
fieldname freom your data source in place of 'Namefield'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
I am designing a mail merge form where I need the user to input an
individual's manager's name. I'd be grateful to know how to include
a merge field in the fillin field prompt so the prompt says ...
"please enter the manager's name for ...mergename

Thanks

[Dave C]

Thanks Graham, you're a star and I'm a numpty! It works great now

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You haven't used CTRL+F9 for the brackets {} around MERGEFIELD
PERS_KNOWN_AS.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
Thanks for your reponse Graham.
I'm afraid I'm having difficulty with the merge field pulling into the
prompt. I'm putting the following into the prompt box when adding the
ask field, but exactly the same text is being displyed to the user
when the document document is opened, rather than the data contained
in the merge field.

{ ASK LineManager "Please enter the name of the line manager for {
MERGEFIELD PERS_KNOWN_AS }" }

Any help will again be gratefully received.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It would be better if you amended the data source to include the
managers' names, however what I suspect you are looking for is

{ ASK mName "Insert the manager's name for { MERGEFIELD Namefield
}" } which will prompt for each record. Reproduce the name in the
document with a REf field {REF mName}

Use CTRL+F9 for the bracket pairs and choose the appropriate
fieldname freom your data source in place of 'Namefield'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Dave C wrote:
I am designing a mail merge form where I need the user to input an
individual's manager's name. I'd be grateful to know how to include
a merge field in the fillin field prompt so the prompt says ...
"please enter the manager's name for ...mergename

Thanks