If you look at the header of your message, you will see that it is posted to
the following newsgroups:
microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields,24hoursuppo rt.helpdesk,microsoft.public.test.here
I replied to it in the first of those newsgroups.
The 24hoursupport.helpdesk newsgroup however cannot be resolved by my news
program so my responses are not being posted to that group.
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.
"~BD~" wrote in message
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
The answer was provided via the microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
newsgroup. It was propogated to the text newsgroup because the OP had
cross-posted to that group.
Hello Doug 
I confess to being totally confused by your response!
I first saw a post made by Mark in the *test* newsgroup.
This was his message header:
From: "Mark McGinty"
Subject: so this NG works but the rest of microsoft.public is jacked?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0800
Lines: 2
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.3959
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4325
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
Message-ID:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.test.here
NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-128-3-165.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com 75.128.3.165
Path:
border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.gig anews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.unit0.net!news4us .nl!TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl
Bytes: 706
Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com microsoft.public.test.he7480695
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Dave - hoping that Doug has mis-read the situation!