Use a table cell instead. Text boxes are not in the text plane of the
document and so fields they contain are problematical.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Michael Weber wrote:
Thanks for the help. I did follow the instructions at the site prior
to posting a note here. It appears my problem stems from the use of a
test box to display the image in. Once I formatted the document to
not use a test box for the image location I was able to get it
working just fine.

Does anyone have advice on how to get this working inside a text box
so I can have finer control of the location of the graphic?

Thanks again!


See http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm which explains how
to do this.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Michael Weber wrote:
Here is the situation:

I have an Excel worksheet as the data source and have a Word merge
document to display the information. We have just added some renders
of the items and I would like to add the graphics to the word merge
document. I have tried to use the {includepicture "{image}"} command
to display the images at the paths specified in the Excel worksheet
but have had no luck in doing so.

The command I am using is: {includepicture "image"}.

The image field in the Excel sheet has a full path to the
filename (c:\\dir\\file.jpg). Whenever I add this command and
attempt a merge it simply deletes the command in my merge template.
I have followed the instructions in both of the primers that are
commonly cited and have finally hit my frustration level. At this
point I'm losing time trying to get this working and would have
been better off actually typing the documents by hand and pasting
in the photos. Of course that isn't a scalable solution like that
one I envision and I would like to get this working.

Does anyone have any suggestions?