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Mail Merge into a Form and Protect the Form
I have forms I created in Word 2003 and subsequently opened/saved in 2007.
These forms take information which was exported from Access into Excel and merge that data into the form. The form was locked in Word 2003 to enable the use of drop down boxes contained in the form. I have been unable to create the merged document and still have the form protected so I can use the drop downs. Can anyone help? |
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Mail Merge into a Form and Protect the Form
These two features of Word are not compatible. You would need to create a
"roll-your-own" equivalent to mailmerge that created a series of documents from the form, which should be saved as a template and inserted the data from the data source into the document by the use of DOCVARIABLE fields with the value of the variables being taken from the data source. -- 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 "Mail Merge and Form Protection in Word 2" Mail Merge and Form Protection in Word wrote in message ... I have forms I created in Word 2003 and subsequently opened/saved in 2007. These forms take information which was exported from Access into Excel and merge that data into the form. The form was locked in Word 2003 to enable the use of drop down boxes contained in the form. I have been unable to create the merged document and still have the form protected so I can use the drop downs. Can anyone help? |
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