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10 things you should know about Word 2010's mail merge tools

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Different problem

etittle 21st Sep

My problem is that when I open my old template, it shows the merged letters. I want to see the fields

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Did you "right click" and "open"

ChrisBGood 10th Feb

You need to right click & select open. [alt]+[f9] does the field on/off.

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thanks

etittle 11th Feb

thanks the alt + f9 did the trick

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Not recognising mergefields within {IF} statement

ChrisBGood 10th Feb

I cannot get {IF} commands to work with merge codes in Word 2010. Worked perfectly fine in earlier version. I have tried ways of writing the merge field and it doesn't work. Ordinary mail merge fields work OK.

Thanks

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Not sure but

etittle 11th Feb

Not sure if we had the same problem. Are you using data from the old version? I had problems and had to save the data in new excel version then merge.

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Data not in Excel

ChrisBGood 11th Feb

Thanks - data is an non "MS Office" source. I had a bright idea to copy and paste the normal merge fields (which were working) into my {IF} statements - result was a mix of the merge content and the merge code. bizarre! Good to hear alt-f9 was the trick you needed.