mail merge and forms

[Sandy]

In the event you check back or want to revert back to
word.... I have several documents that require variables
to be inserted which are useless to put in the database.
In word you can use the "fill in" feature (Ctrl F9 -
"fillin",or "use insert "wordfield - fillin"). A
dialogue box will pop up, prompting you to fill in the
variable information. And your document will look fine.

Sandy.

-----Original Message-----
On the sage advice of a couple of resident experts

(thanks again!), I have set up a mail merge data base. I
will use this for about 8 forms and maybe 20-25 letters.

Preliminary testing is great. I have only set up one

Word form so far but it works great. I am having a couple
of problems though.

The form has multiple fields and only some will be

filled via the mail merge function. My intention was to
have the user open up the blank document and use the mail
merge feature to propogate the basic info. Then, once the
new document is created, fill out the remaining fields
(those that will be unique each time), print the form and
go onto the next.

The problem is that the in the merged document, the

fields that the user is now to fill out have disappeared.
Is there a fix for this or what am I doing wrong?

I thought the problem was that I can not seem to use the

mail merge feature and also protect the document (as far
as I can figure out) but even protecting the merged
document does not recreate the fields.