You need to execute the merge to a new document and then use Ctrl+A to
select everything and then F9 to update the fields in the document.
Alternatively, there is an add-in available for a free trial from
http://onmerge.com:80/ that claims to take care of that for you.
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Hope this helps.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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> I'm trying to merge a number of unique "tif" images and corresponding
> records from an Access database into a mail merge document.. The
> images to the corresponding "tifs" are stored on a network drive. The
> "tif's" are all different and uniquly named. The full paths are
> stored in the document.
>
> The problem is in the update of the field:
> I have written the folowing,
> {If {mergefield "graphic"}<> "" "{ INCLUDEPICTURE "../MPP/Certificates/
> {mergefield "graphic"}" \d }" "WE ARE MISSING A GRAPHIC HERE" }
>
> All the merge fields for the address works on the front of the sheet,
> the graphic will not update; it keeps the original graphic from the
> time it was last updated.
>
> I can go into the above logic and click on the field "graphic" and
> right mouse click and do a "update", this will then update the image.
> I can not do this on 500 records each day.
>
> I have insured all my settings are to refresh and update in word .
> If I convert all the images into word and use a bookmark for each
> unique document, this will work seems at waste of time when a merge
> should update.
>
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