You need to merge to a new document! That document will behave as you
require.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


LMB wrote:
I e-mailed the word document. I want the word document to be
disconnected from the source at this time and the labels to behave
like hand typed labels would.

After looking at those links, I now know where those .odc files came
from. Are those just a connection line between the excel data and my
document? Once we are done using this excel sheet, and label document
and delete the files, will those remain?

Thanks,
Linda


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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What was it that you e-mailed? Was it the merge source document with
the fields that you inserted? In which case you can toggle between
the field construction and content with ALT+F9. Or was it the merged
document (merge to new document) in which case there will be no
field information. - See
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm and maybe
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


LMB wrote:
Hi Guys,

This is really weird. I created a mail merge in office 2003 using
data from excel. I made labels and used the label wizard. Once the
document was made, saved it and then needed to make some changes to
some labels. I made the changes and they did work, I save the
document. I e-mailed the document home and opened it
up on Word 2000. When I opened it at home, there were no words but
I could tell that there was something there. I selected the whole
document and changed the font
thinking that maybe I didn't have the same font here as I did from
where I created the document. The first label showed all of the
text. I then hit the redo button and all of the labels were
visible. I printed it out fine and all is
well but I would really like to know what is going on. Each address
is like a macro button, you can toggle and untoggle the field, how
can I save this so it is just plain text in the labels and dump the
underlying formatting?
Thanks,
Linda