Question about mail merge.
 

I am doing a mail merge on an Word document. Field1 is in the header, Field 2, 3, 4, and 5 are in the body. When I run the merge, I see that Field1 in the header still says "Field1". The fields in the body have merged successfully.

This merge is done from a Progress program. The program makes the .txt file to use for the data file, then invokes the Word merge.

(Progress is a database programming language. My question would be the same for any programming language.)

Do I need to do something special for the field in the header?

Thanks, Wayne

What version of Word are you using? I just put a field in a header using Word 2007 and it worked fine. (My data source is on-the-fly but I agree with you, the source should not matter)

Word 2007.

Do you have any advice for someone trying to do this from a program?

Thanks

Find out if the problem is that there is a merge field in the header, or if the merge field "field 1" is the problem. Add "field 2" to the header.

Neither field in the header works.
 

I added field 2 to the header. Neither field in the header works.