In message of Sat, 1 Mar 2008
07:28:49 in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields, Walter Briscoe
writes
Sorry to add something to last posting, but I found some things out.
I top-post my belated reply to conform with custom in this newsgroup.
Putting the last message after the sig is new to me and I hope it works.
It took me a long time to make sense of your valuable reply. I did not
see "Idiots' Guide to Installing Macros" at the bottom of the view
rendered on opening http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
AutoOpen runs automatically on opening my main document and when it
opens the output document created when I click Edit individual
letters... (I infer this - I have yet to work out how to insert a
breakpoint in the code of a VBA module. I used to do this in C but am
unable to remember the technique. I have some memory of 3 as a function
parameter.) I use Edit... because Print... does not successfully
produce double-sided output on my printer.
My inference above is wrong.
A stop statement showed AutoOpen is not run for the output document.
I found no method to invert ActiveDocument.Fields.Update.
I suppose I need a condition on ActiveDocument.Fields.Update which
would suppress it on the latter document. I have yet to find that
condition and hope for further assistance.
I got a copy of "Office VBA: Macros You Can Use Today" and applied
Cindy Meister's "Mail Merge: Using a Relative Path for Data Source"
procedure.
(I now use the complicated version which opens Sheet1 automatically.)
I added the line
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.ShowWizard 5 'Open "Preview your Letters" pane
I have yet to find out how to automate "Edit recipient list..."
When I use that control, the order of columns in the window which opens
is not the same as in my data source. (The first data column is
"Postcode"; it is column J of my Excel data source.) I see the same
behavior (sic) with both the default and Cindy's version of "Use an
existing list". I hope this is an FAQ and would value a pointer to it.
I am sorry this is a portmanteau response. I am trying to run when
barely able to toddle. 
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Walter Briscoe