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Graham Mayor Graham Mayor is offline
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Default Mailmerge field result to insert word document

There is no way to do that with fields. You can only look in the defined
folder. It's a fixed path.

If your documents are stored in a variety of sub folders then you are going
to have to tell the field which folder to look in for the particular
document. How you would do this rather depends on how your filing system is
arranged and whether the folder can be determined from the data source. For
example you might be able to use the same or another field to get the path

{ INCLUDETEXT "Q:\\BookData\\Editor\\Entries\\{MERGEFIELD Client}\\{
MERGEFIELD EntryID}.doc" }

It is either that or copy all the documents used by the merge to the same
folder location.

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"Primus" wrote in message
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Partly solved:

The following is now working for me as long at the { MERGEFIELD
EntyrID}.doc
resided in the Q:\\BookData\\Editor\\Entries\\ folder

\* MERGEFORMAT }

However I need the INCLUDETEXT command to look at all the Subfolders
contained within the Entries folder and there are hundreds of these!