[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

There is nothing preventing the user from arranging the individual fields in
exactly the same arrangement as that used by the addressblock.

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"ramudu" wrote in message
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Thanks guys. It looks like I'll have to dissuade from using
AddressBlock. The reason they were using this is that we have multiple
Address fields and AddressBlock formats them in a much neater way.

- Sri

Graham Mayor wrote:
Why not? AddressBlock doesn't work properly.Your client is presumably
paying
you for advice. Better to give him good advice.

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ramudu wrote:
Thanks Doug! Unfortunately, I can't tell my client this (at least
until things get desperate) ...

- Sri

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
Don't use the AddressBlock. It causes more problems than it solves.

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"ramudu" wrote in message
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Hi,

Our software has a mail merge functionality where we get the data
source for the Word document (Office 2003) from an Excel
spreadsheet. The software allows you to create the template
document and then later send out correspondence as and when
required by writing out the data to the spreadsheet and linking the
Word document to it.

Once the template Word document is created, it is then picked up by
the software as a byte stream and stored in a (SQL Server 2000)
database as an image field.

The problem I am facing is that one of our clients tried using the
Match Fields functionality of the Address Block and when the person
opened the document again from the software the fields which were
previously linked to the spreadsheet were now dropped.

I tried manually opening (from the disk) the Word document and I saw
the Match Fields were still there. So it seems to be a problem when
the file is saved into the database and then retrieved.

What can I do to resolve this issue? If anybody needs any code
snippets from the application I can provide that on request.

Thanks!

- Sri