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Legacy Text Control Won't Merge in Word 2007
With your existing mail merge main document, which you have protected to
allow only the filling in of forms as the active document, in your case, as your data source is from Access, you would run a macro containing the code under the heading on the website of Access Data Source. If you do not know what to do with the code under that heading, see the following page of that website http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Chris Thacker" wrote in message ... Thank you for the assistance Doug and were I smart enough to understand what the link is explaining it might well work. However the instructions for a lay person such as myself kind of go over my head. There was not enough specific instruction on how to set up the document in the linked page for me to execute the process as described on MVP Graham Mayor's website. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the article €śCombining FormFields and Mail Merge€ť on the following page of fellow MVP Graham Mayors website: http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm If that information is of use to you, please do consider contributing to the maintenance of that website to ensure its continued availability. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Chris Thacker" Chris wrote in message ... I have created a document that merges with an Access Database. In that document I have inserted several 'merged' fields. In addition to the merged fields I have inserted several legacy controls including a drop list, check box, and text fields. When I merge the document with a particular record from my database, then edit that specific document I find that although my check box and drop list controls move over to the new merged document along with the data from the database, the legacy text box is stripped from the master document. I am able to insert an active x text field, and protect the new document to be used as a form but am not able to format or control the text box behavior so that it will grow with the amount of text entered or be limited to a text only field, date format field, or a numeric only field as I could with the legacy text control. Is there a way to merge a document with legacy controls that does not lose the text box? |
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