Trying to protect doc as a form and have mail merge

[Joey]

Hello all, here is my problem. I have created a document
that i need to protect as a form. I also need to include
mail merge fields in it. I have sectioned my document, and
made sure to place the mail merge fields in the area that
is unprotected. However, when I enable protection on the
document, it disables my mail merge fields. is there any
way around this?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Joey,

I have created a document
that i need to protect as a form. I also need to include
mail merge fields in it.

Mail merge and document protection are inherently
incompatible. See this Knowledge Base article for the only
approach I know of (and it involves first unprotecting the
document)

WD2000: Text Form Fields Are Not Retained During Mail Merge
[Q211308]
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=211308

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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