[Kitty]

I have my mail merge ready to print. However, when I print them the
receipients address has a grey background. I do not have the document
protected and I followed Word's directions exactly. How can I fix this?
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Thank you,
Kitty

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It sounds like you are printing the mail merge main document rather than
executing the merge to the printer. The grey shading is being applied to
the mergefields that will be in the main document. When you execute the
merge, those fields are replaced by the data from the data source and the
shading will not be present.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Kitty" wrote in message
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I have my mail merge ready to print. However, when I print them the
receipients address has a grey background. I do not have the document
protected and I followed Word's directions exactly. How can I fix this?
--
Thank you,
Kitty