It mostly works, and you can save copies (what you are referring to as 'previews') of theĭocuments with merged data intact.
What may have more been useful was explaining the error most people were making intuitively.Ĭlicking 'Start Mail Merge' and changing the document to a 'Normal Word Document' does not entirely separate it from the merge database. The most likely remaining possibility is that your mailmerge main document has some form of corruption. not merely saving a preview of the merge.When you execute the merge in such cases, the data are not inserted into the fields and they remain active in the document. Au contraire, I have indeed understood the issue. It's puerile for anyone to suggest 'Microsoft needs to get off their rump and fix garbage like this' for not fixing something that isn't broken and, contrary to what was asserted,Īs Doug Robbins found in GeneJ927's case, the merge fields were inside Shapes (e.g.
