Please do not post attachments!

Are you sure you really want to send this nauseating message out to your
customers? If you want to make an impression, leave a bunch of flowers (or a
cleaning kit or service voucher) in the new car with a note that says
"Thanks for buying from us" - and leave it at that. Your customers will
remember good service far more appreciatively than grovelling letters.

That aside, the document should really have been prepared as a two column
bordeless table, to avoid all those empty paragraphs, and you might want to
change that Time field for a Createdate field.

Obviously you did not supply the data file nor the signature files so it is
impossible to reproduce your conditions, but when I changed the field here
and saved the document, the fields remained as I had inserted them.

Take a look at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


David Knight wrote:
Attached is a copy of the Word 2003 file in question.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
What do you actually have in the fields in the database?

C://FolderName//DFKSig.bmp

or

C:\\FolderName\\DFKSig.bmp?

It should be the latter.

What happens if you execute the merge BEFORE saving the main
document. --
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"David Knight" wrote in message
...
Not sure what you mean? Once the merge to new document is done, we
do CTRL-A and F9 to pull in the graphics. But since the file names
from the database aren't being used - all the images are the same.

The problem is that the merge field will not save. When I click
save you can actually see the "{MERGEFIELD SignatureFileName }"
change to "C://FolderName//DFKSig.bmp" before your eyes.



"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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All you may need to do is update the fields in the new document.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"David Knight" wrote in message
...
I have something strange going on with a Word/Access 2003 mail
merge. I
am using the INCLUDEPICTURE command in order to add a unique
signature to
the end of a letter, based on a Path and FileName stored in my
database. Here is what appears in my Word file:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD SignatureFileName }" /*
MERGEFORMAT} When I click on SAVE in Word - it replaces my merge field
with the
actual database value from the record I am on. So after saving,
it reads:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C://FolderName//DFKSig.bmp" /* MERGEFORMAT}

Of course, when I run Merge to New Document - all the signatures
are the
same. If I manually remove the ""C://FolderName//DFKSig.bmp"" and
replace it with the MERGEFIELD - then run the letters it works. But if
I save, it puts the "C://FolderName//DFKSig.bmp" back in. So, I have
to
do this manual step each time.

I have seen tons of posts here about merging images, and have
followed all the instructions.

Why would clicking SAVE change what I just did? Please help.
thanks!!!


David Knight
RoundTable Solutions