Glad it works now. I would generally assume that there was a tiny difference
in the way you did things but it ain't necessarily so!

Peter Jamieson
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Hi Peter

Yes, it worked. Fantastic. Thank you so much.

After hours and hours of trying I eventually deleted the field codes in
the
main document, retyped them (identically!) pressed Alt and F9 and could
immediately see the paragraphs. Prior to retyping, when I pressed Alt and
F9
nothing happened - the fields were as if they were ordinary text.

Again, thank you so much for your patience and for your detailed
explanations.


Regards
Sandra


Peter Jamieson wrote:
but I'm clearly doing
something wrong.

Not necessarily...

When you open your mail merge main document (and are connected to the data
source), do you see any of the paragraphs?

If you show the fields in preview mode (where you can see the results -
use
Alt-F9 and Tools|Customize to enable the mailmerge toolbar and click the
button if necessary) do you see those paragraphs included? If not, if
you select the whole document using ctrl-A, then update all the fields
using
F9, do you see them? If not, can you use Alt-F9 to expose the underlying
field codes, then select the first IF field, right-click and select Toggle
Field Codes to show the result of the IF field. What do you see? (You
should
see Para1.) If you don't, temporarily replace the IF field with the text
Para1, try updating the INCLUDETEXT field again and show its result. If
you
don't see the paragraph bookmarked Para1 included, then my guess is that
there is something wrong with the bookmarks.

Unfortunately, you may also have to follow this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330554

Peter Jamieson

Hi Peter

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Regards
Sandra

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