You have to merge to a new document and update that - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm
You might also consider using shorter fieldnames. The original standard was
a maximum of 10 charaters and Word can get confused if the fieldnames are
longer than this.
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david.townsend[ at ]gmail.com wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Let me add a little more information:
>
> I'm trying to include the full path name in the excel spreadsheet from
> which I'm importing the information. I have quotation marks around the
> path name.
>
> Here's a sample of my code:
>
> { INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD "PictureLocationwithoutquotationmarks"}"
> \d \*MERGEFORMAT }
>
> When I toggle code, it appears like this:
> { INCLUDEPICTURE "W:\\Users\\DavidTownsend\\2007-2008\\Conferences\
> \IPDET\\Photo Directory\\Attendee Pictures\\PAlexAcheampong.jpg" \d
> \* MERGEFORMAT }
>
> This shows the second name on the list. Yet, when I press Alt+F9 to
> show the results, it displays a copy of the picture of the first
> person, as are all subsequent pictures If at this point I press Ctrl+A
> then F9, all text the becomes duplicates of the first person.
>
> On Jun 8, 10:18 am, david.towns...[ at ]gmail.com wrote:
>> For the sake of my sanity, can someone please tell me what I'm doing
>> wrong? I'm using Word 2003.
>>
>> I'm trying to create a directory with the person's picture beside
>> their personal information, so I'm using two columns - one for the
>> picture, one for the name,phone#,etc. What's happening is the textual
>> information is updating and showing each subsequent record in the
>> file, but the all the pictures copies of the first person in the
>> directory. I've tried press Ctrl+A and then F9, but that seems to
>> change all the text information to be duplicates of the first person
>> in the directory (pressing the 'next record' and then 'previous
>> record' corrects that part).
>>
>> How do I fix this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> David
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