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Subject:Re: Word merge and macros From:"Wittel, Teresa J." <WITTTJ -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:52:00 -0700
Lynda Straus asked:
>How to do? Can't protect the template, then the merge won't work. What
>about a macro set to run after the mailmerge, and specifying each field
>where data was just filled in? Is it possible?
Have you tried Word's field protection switch? I think you could try
using the INCLUDETEXT command and then locking the field result.
From Word Help text:
Lock Result (\!) field switch
Prevents a field that is included in the result of a BOOKMARK,
INCLUDETEXT, or REF field from being updated unless the field result in
the original location has changed. Without this switch, Word will update
fields included in a field result whenever the BOOKMARK, INCLUDETEXT, or
REF field is updated....
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Teresa Wittel mailto:WITTTJ -at- ncslink -dot- com
Sr. Information Developer
NCS Education, Mesa AZ
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