I suspect the business about quotes and no-quotes is a red herring - Word
2003 happens to insert double-quote marks by default when you insert a merge
field (presumably just in case the field name contains spaces) and, as you
say - more or less - removes them if you use left-click|Edit field|OK. But
both normally work fine. I just tried again here to be sure. Can you always
reproduce the problem? Can you simply selecting the mergefields and
executing them with F9 rather than the full "edit field" ?
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"memead" wrote in message
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After creating a mailmerge .dot file in Word 2003, the merge field prints
clientname1 in lieu of Bob Smith. After right-clicking on the merge
field,
clicking OK, and saving, the problem is fixed. This did not happen in
Word
97. If the .dot files (before and after the change) are opened in
Notepad,
the following can be seen:
(Before edit, OK, and save) MERGEFIELD "clientname1" clientname1
(After edit, OK, and save) MERGEFIELD clientname1 clientname1
For some reason Word 2003 places quotation marks around the merged field.
Saving after edit removes these quotation marks. After the quotation
marks
are removed, the mail merge is successful. Why does this happen?
Thanks,
Mike