[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

Use:

ActiveDocument.Fields.Add Selection.Range, wdFieldEmpty, "Mergefield
FirstName"


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"fledeboer" wrote in message
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Hello,

I am trying to write an add-in with visual studio 2008 (visual basic) for
Word2007 to let users build a mailmerg document template. In the second
steo
these mergefields should handle values from an active directory. To do
this I
would like to have a ribbongroup with some buttons in it. By pressing a
button a mail merge field e.g. {MERGEFIELD firstname} should be inserted
at
the current cursor position.

I don't know how to use the Filed.Add method. Maybe someone has an example
for me?