Mail merge includepicture doesn't work! 1

[bekibutton]

Hi,

I'm trying to insert a different picture for each record in a mail merge that I'm doing, using an Access database table as my source data.

My picture code is
{ INCLUDEPICTURE { MERGEFIELD "Pic" } \* MERGEFORMAT }
which gives
INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Database\\OrangeX.gif" \* MERGEFORMAT when I copy it into notepad.

If I use the second code (ie explicitly state the file path) the picture is shown. If I use the MERGEFIELD code it doesn't work.

I had a load of trouble getting Date-Time Picture Switches to work in word and gave up trying to format the date, instead changing the source data to text format which is admittedly not ideal. I don't know if, given that I've had problems with both these things, it's something to do with my version of Word (2002 SP-2)??

Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Becki

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[bekibutton]

Never mind - somehow I've eventually found the right combination of spaces, slashes and quotemarks and it now works fabulously!

It's ended up as
{ INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Database\\{MERGEFIELD Pic}" }

Thanks for looking anyway
Becki

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[Remou]

Thanks very much indeed for the above. I found that in Word 2000, it is the quote marks that make the whole thing work:

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "{MERGEFIELD Pic}" }

Did the trick for me. Once again, thanks.