MS Word 2003 Mail Merge(email) with images?

[dave]

I have been trying for couple days now to get mail merge from with ms word
2003 on xp sp2 to work.
I am able to get the merge to work to a new document however, if i try to
merge to email the images do not show up.
I am using the following format
{"{INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD "photo"}" \* MERGEFORMATINET \d}}}
I have tried many combinations of the above. The field photo is test.jpg and
is in the same directory as the document.
I see that many individuals have similar issues, however i am merging to
email document. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I can't believe i am having this much trouble with this feature.
ty
dave

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?ZGF2ZQ==?=,

I have been trying for couple days now to get mail merge from with ms word
2003 on xp sp2 to work.
I am able to get the merge to work to a new document however, if i try to
merge to email the images do not show up.
I am using the following format
{"{INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD "photo"}" \* MERGEFORMATINET \d}}}
I have tried many combinations of the above. The field photo is test.jpg and
is in the same directory as the document.
I see that many individuals have similar issues, however i am merging to
email document. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I'm not sure you CAN get this to work (although I think I did manage it once,
working with someone). First thing I'd try, though, is removing this stuff:

\* MERGEFORMATINET \d

I also don't understand what the outer set of field brackets { } is for. Word
can't do anything with empty (no field name) field brackets. Try something more
like this

{INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD photo}" }

And try fiddling the settings under Tool/Options/General/Web options. (And
while you're there, turn OFF the one about updating link paths in the "File"
tab, as that's causing the Mergeformatinet switch, you definitely do NOT want.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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