I have a template which creates a mail merge to a new document automatically.
There are only two fields in the merge. Product Name and Image Name.
Everything works beautifully except that the images don't display. I see the
image frame with the sizing handles, but no image.

I have two macros. One that run in the DocumentNew that performs the merge.
A second macro runs after that to basically do Ctrl+A and F9. However, this
doesn't seem to do the trick.

There are approximately 72 images with a size of about 200 pixels wide each.
The resolution of the images is 100 dpi.

I am working in Word 2000 and have the following options:
View Placeholders -- OFF
Print Drawings -- ON
Include with Document Drawing Objects -- ON

I do lots of work with images and haven't had a problem with any other
document.

Any help is greatly welcome.

TIA,
Gilley

Assuming you are using a nested field such as

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\{ MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

have you checked to ensure thata there are no additional spaces in the
pathname, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\ { MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

? For some reason it seems easy to introduce one by accident when
constructing this kind of field.

Peter Jamieson


"Gilley" wrote in message
...
I have a template which creates a mail merge to a new document
automatically.
There are only two fields in the merge. Product Name and Image Name.
Everything works beautifully except that the images don't display. I see
the
image frame with the sizing handles, but no image.

I have two macros. One that run in the DocumentNew that performs the
merge.
A second macro runs after that to basically do Ctrl+A and F9. However,
this
doesn't seem to do the trick.

There are approximately 72 images with a size of about 200 pixels wide
each.
The resolution of the images is 100 dpi.

I am working in Word 2000 and have the following options:
View Placeholders -- OFF
Print Drawings -- ON
Include with Document Drawing Objects -- ON

I do lots of work with images and haven't had a problem with any other
document.

Any help is greatly welcome.

TIA,
Gilley

Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I am what you might call particular about my file and
directory names. I never use spaces just for this reason. I prefer
TitleCase or Camel directory and file names.

Here is the includepicture merge field:

{ includepicture
"\\welton1\\sys\\maint\\web\\imagesspecsschematics logosremotes\\icons(smallimages)\\{mergefield icon_file_name}}

I am getting a box that is the right size for the images. The box also has
the sizing handles. It is just the images don't display.

Thanks again,
Gilley

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Assuming you are using a nested field such as

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\{ MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

have you checked to ensure thata there are no additional spaces in the
pathname, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\ { MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

? For some reason it seems easy to introduce one by accident when
constructing this kind of field.

Peter Jamieson


"Gilley" wrote in message
...
I have a template which creates a mail merge to a new document
automatically.
There are only two fields in the merge. Product Name and Image Name.
Everything works beautifully except that the images don't display. I see
the
image frame with the sizing handles, but no image.

I have two macros. One that run in the DocumentNew that performs the
merge.
A second macro runs after that to basically do Ctrl+A and F9. However,
this
doesn't seem to do the trick.

There are approximately 72 images with a size of about 200 pixels wide
each.
The resolution of the images is 100 dpi.

I am working in Word 2000 and have the following options:
View Placeholders -- OFF
Print Drawings -- ON
Include with Document Drawing Objects -- ON

I do lots of work with images and haven't had a problem with any other
document.

Any help is greatly welcome.

TIA,
Gilley

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems my problem was in the way I was using the relative directory path
to my network. I was using ...

\\welton1\\sys\\maint\\web ...

When pathing to a network, you need four back slashes (\\\\). My path
should have read ...

\\\\welton1\\sys\maint\\web ...

Thanks for you help Peter. You started me looking in the right direction
for the issue.

I hope this post saves other from the same frustration I had.

Regards,
Gilley

"Gilley" wrote:

Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I am what you might call particular about my file and
directory names. I never use spaces just for this reason. I prefer
TitleCase or Camel directory and file names.

Here is the includepicture merge field:

{ includepicture
"\\welton1\\sys\\maint\\web\\imagesspecsschematics logosremotes\\icons(smallimages)\\{mergefield icon_file_name}}

I am getting a box that is the right size for the images. The box also has
the sizing handles. It is just the images don't display.

Thanks again,
Gilley

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Assuming you are using a nested field such as

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\{ MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

have you checked to ensure thata there are no additional spaces in the
pathname, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\ { MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

? For some reason it seems easy to introduce one by accident when
constructing this kind of field.

Peter Jamieson


"Gilley" wrote in message
...
I have a template which creates a mail merge to a new document
automatically.
There are only two fields in the merge. Product Name and Image Name.
Everything works beautifully except that the images don't display. I see
the
image frame with the sizing handles, but no image.

I have two macros. One that run in the DocumentNew that performs the
merge.
A second macro runs after that to basically do Ctrl+A and F9. However,
this
doesn't seem to do the trick.

There are approximately 72 images with a size of about 200 pixels wide
each.
The resolution of the images is 100 dpi.

I am working in Word 2000 and have the following options:
View Placeholders -- OFF
Print Drawings -- ON
Include with Document Drawing Objects -- ON

I do lots of work with images and haven't had a problem with any other
document.

Any help is greatly welcome.

TIA,
Gilley

Glad you found it. Yes, I've missed that one too!

Peter Jamieson
"Gilley" wrote in message
...
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems my problem was in the way I was using the relative directory path
to my network. I was using ...

\\welton1\\sys\\maint\\web ...

When pathing to a network, you need four back slashes (\\\\). My path
should have read ...

\\\\welton1\\sys\maint\\web ...

Thanks for you help Peter. You started me looking in the right direction
for the issue.

I hope this post saves other from the same frustration I had.

Regards,
Gilley

"Gilley" wrote:

Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I am what you might call particular about my file
and
directory names. I never use spaces just for this reason. I prefer
TitleCase or Camel directory and file names.

Here is the includepicture merge field:

{ includepicture
"\\welton1\\sys\\maint\\web\\imagesspecsschematics logosremotes\\icons(smallimages)\\{mergefield
icon_file_name}}

I am getting a box that is the right size for the images. The box also
has
the sizing handles. It is just the images don't display.

Thanks again,
Gilley

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Assuming you are using a nested field such as

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\{ MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

have you checked to ensure thata there are no additional spaces in the
pathname, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c:\\myimages\\ { MERGEFIELD "Image Name" }" }

? For some reason it seems easy to introduce one by accident when
constructing this kind of field.

Peter Jamieson


"Gilley" wrote in message
...
I have a template which creates a mail merge to a new document
automatically.
There are only two fields in the merge. Product Name and Image Name.
Everything works beautifully except that the images don't display. I
see
the
image frame with the sizing handles, but no image.

I have two macros. One that run in the DocumentNew that performs the
merge.
A second macro runs after that to basically do Ctrl+A and F9.
However,
this
doesn't seem to do the trick.

There are approximately 72 images with a size of about 200 pixels
wide
each.
The resolution of the images is 100 dpi.

I am working in Word 2000 and have the following options:
View Placeholders -- OFF
Print Drawings -- ON
Include with Document Drawing Objects -- ON

I do lots of work with images and haven't had a problem with any
other
document.

Any help is greatly welcome.

TIA,
Gilley