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Peter:

I was afraid of that. I had already read your earlier comments about
INCLUDETEXT, and no way was I going to search through hundreds of jpg
files as a way to force an error message. Microsoft Word used to emit
an error message (along the lines you mention here) when
INCLUDEPICTURE did not find the requested file, but evidently it now
goes silently into the night.

I will simply preprocess the data source and feed that preprocessed
source into the mail merge document, and be done with it.

Thank you so much for your prompt and comprehensive reply.

-- Roy Zider