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[email protected] karen_greenwood@oma.org is offline
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Default Suppress error messages when merging in batch

We do merge in Word through a batch job. This is fine unless there is
an error, for example one of the records in the data file is
incomplete. Then the merge hangs. If such a merge were run online
the user would see the error message and acknowledge it, but in batch
mode there is no way to acknowledge it. Is there any way to avoid the
hanging and instead have Word exit and return an error code to the
calling program?