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I have a report that contains text form fields, check box form fields
and drop down form fields that I need to customize to over 3,800
recipients. I have an Excel file of all of the recipients. I
created a mail merge document with the form and ran the merge. All of
the text form fields were replaced with spaces! I want to merge the
data with the form and then protect the new set of forms. I cannot
figure out how to keep the text form fields from the master document
in the new merged document. Any help/recommendation on other ways to
accomplish this would be really appreciated!
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Blah wrote:
I have a report that contains text form fields, check box form fields
and drop down form fields that I need to customize to over 3,800
recipients. I have an Excel file of all of the recipients. I
created a mail merge document with the form and ran the merge. All of
the text form fields were replaced with spaces! I want to merge the
data with the form and then protect the new set of forms. I cannot
figure out how to keep the text form fields from the master document
in the new merged document. Any help/recommendation on other ways to
accomplish this would be really appreciated!

See the article “Combining FormFields and Mail Merge” on the following
page of fellow MVP Graham Mayor’s website:

http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm

If that information is of use to you, please do consider contributing to
the maintenance of that website to ensure its continued availability.


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Blah wrote:
I have a report that contains text form fields, check box form fields
and drop down form fields that I need to customize to over 3,800
recipients. I have an Excel file of all of the recipients. I
created a mail merge document with the form and ran the merge. All of
the text form fields were replaced with spaces! I want to merge the
data with the form and then protect the new set of forms. I cannot
figure out how to keep the text form fields from the master document
in the new merged document. Any help/recommendation on other ways to
accomplish this would be really appreciated!

See the article “Combining FormFields and Mail Merge” on the following
page of fellow MVP Graham Mayor’s website:

http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm

If that information is of use to you, please do consider contributing to
the maintenance of that website to ensure its continued availability.


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services on a paid professional basis.
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