Gilley
Mon Jan 17 08:01:01 CST 2005
Doug,
Thanks for the quick response.
I have read Cindi's reference that you provided, but maybe I am not
understanding properly or have something wrong in my merge field statement.
Here is what I have:
A Word document which contains two columns. The first column contains the
product name, the second the file name.
A second Word document which contains my mail merge fields.
{ mergefield productname }
{ include picture "d:\\newproducts\\{ mergefield filename \* upper }" }
My image files are located in the d:\newproducts directory. When I merge to
a new document, the product names are working fine. They are just a simple
mail merge. However, the images are not displaying. Instead I receive:
{ includepicture "d:\\newproducts\\" }
Not sure where I have gone wrong!
Any insight would be appreciated.
Regards,
Gilley
"Doug Robbins" wrote:
> See the "Graphics from data base" item under the "Special merges" section of
> fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at
>
>
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm
>
>
> --
> Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
> interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
> consulting basis.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> "Gilley" <Gilley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0A48283B-77FA-4673-B93A-02EE69D000A5@microsoft.com...
> >I am going to try my best to explain what I am trying to do.
> >
> > 1. A list of our current products. Either in a table or list separated
> > by
> > paragraph markers.
> > 2. A directory on the network with 100s of images.
> > 3. Create a document based on the list of products, locate the image in a
> > specified directory, and insert the picture into the Word doc.
> >
> > I am looking at several different approaches. Populate the final document
> > with the product names using a mail merge? Build an array using the list
> > of
> > current products then use the array to locate the images and insert them
> > into
> > the document?
> >
> > There are some things which might make this easier that I seem to be
> > making
> > it!
> >
> > The name of the product is in the name of the image file. For example, a
> > product may be called CH1 and the image file name is CH1( ICON).jpg. This
> > remains constant throughout the process.
> >
> > All of the image files are located in a single directory on our network.
> > There will be no searching for the images. Just point Word to the correct
> > location.
> >
> > I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Warmest regards,
> >
> > Gilley
>
>
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