[ramudu]

Hi,

Our software has a mail merge functionality where we get the data
source for the Word document (Office 2003) from an Excel spreadsheet.
The software allows you to create the template document and then later
send out correspondence as and when required by writing out the data to
the spreadsheet and linking the Word document to it.

Once the template Word document is created, it is then picked up by the
software as a byte stream and stored in a (SQL Server 2000) database as
an image field.

The problem I am facing is that one of our clients tried using the
Match Fields functionality of the Address Block and when the person
opened the document again from the software the fields which were
previously linked to the spreadsheet were now dropped.

I tried manually opening (from the disk) the Word document and I saw
the Match Fields were still there. So it seems to be a problem when the
file is saved into the database and then retrieved.

What can I do to resolve this issue? If anybody needs any code snippets
from the application I can provide that on request.

Thanks!

- Sri