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Mail Merge Deletes my form fields
I made a form in Microsoft Word 2003 that is fill-able and need to email the
form out to 183 different organization with personal data from each organization in their form. For this reason, I created the form, then did a Mail Merge that had the data I needed. When the merge was complete, all of my Text Form Fields had been deleted. The blanks are still there but the Text Form Fields are not. I would like to be able to lock the document so that they will not be able to type in the question areas but if I lock it without the text form fields, they can't type anything at all. I tried locking the document before I did the merge in a hope that it would keep the form fields there, but Word would not allow me to merge the document if it was locked. I would really enjoy not having to go through 183 documents and add form fields in all the spots that got erased. I guess I could go through 183 copies of the same document and type the data by hand, but I am really hoping there is a way to get mail merge to put my information in the document without removing my text form fields. |
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Mail Merge Deletes my form fields
Set the article €śCombining FormFields and Mail Merge€ť on the following page
of fellow MVP Graham Mayors website: http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Bushkanaka86" wrote in message ... I made a form in Microsoft Word 2003 that is fill-able and need to email the form out to 183 different organization with personal data from each organization in their form. For this reason, I created the form, then did a Mail Merge that had the data I needed. When the merge was complete, all of my Text Form Fields had been deleted. The blanks are still there but the Text Form Fields are not. I would like to be able to lock the document so that they will not be able to type in the question areas but if I lock it without the text form fields, they can't type anything at all. I tried locking the document before I did the merge in a hope that it would keep the form fields there, but Word would not allow me to merge the document if it was locked. I would really enjoy not having to go through 183 documents and add form fields in all the spots that got erased. I guess I could go through 183 copies of the same document and type the data by hand, but I am really hoping there is a way to get mail merge to put my information in the document without removing my text form fields. |
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