[Cliff Squire]

Hi Doug,

I don't use mail merge myself so my description of the problem we are having
might have been a bit off. Yes the problem is with documents that are
created after execution of the merge. I hope that makes more sense.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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I don't believe that the way you think that Word 2003 worked is the way
that Word has ever worked. To have the data displayed in a mail merge main
document display what is in the data source, it is necessary to execute, or
at least preview the results of the merge. Saving the main document does
not convert the fields to ordinary text. Perhaps you are dealing with a
document that was produced by executing the merge to a new document, rather
that with the mail merge main document itself.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Cliff Squire" wrote in message
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Hi,

In Word 2003 and previous versions when a mail merged document was saved
and reopened any fields that had been changed in the source document were
updated. Now with Word 2007 it seems that when a mail merge document is
saved, all fields are replaced by the values from the source document and
the fields themselves are removed. Is there a way to bring back the
behaviour of previous versions of Word?