Hello,

I am trying to access a field within a documents mailmerge file using
VBA,  I am not having much luck, could somebody please tell me how to
access fields within the mailmerge file.

The code I have is below.

Thanks in advance.

    Selection.GoTo what:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="bookByFax"
    If obByFax.Value = True Then
        Dim fax As String
        fax = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields(19)
        Selection.TypeText "By fax " & fax
    ElseIf obConfidential.Value = True Then
        Selection.TypeText "Confidential"
    End If

At what point in the merge process are you trying to execute your code? I
couldn't really work out exactly what you want to happen.

It's important to realise that there are really two types of fiedls during a
merge - the Word { MERGEFIELD } fields, which do not have a value (or
probably not the one you want) before the merge is performed, and the fields
in the data source, whose values you can get from the Mailmerge.Datasource
object.

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Peter Jamieson
MS Word MVP