Text field lost in merge

[Robert McN]

I used the forms tool bar to add a text form field in a mail merge form.
What appears is a series of little circles and a gray background. Normally,
if you add something to that field, it will disappear being replace by
whatever content is added. However, when I added this field to a mail merge
form and then produced the merged letter, the field is lost and what appears
is a number of spaces. Can I do something to keep the grayed field in the
merged letter?
Thank you for any thoughts.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

See

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211308

If you have problems with the code, there was a recent discussion about some
of the code in the article in a conversation in this forum titled
"Protection & SpellCheck in Merged Forms"

Peter Jamieson