I think that you can probably achieve what you want by having the caption
and the signature block in separate documents and incorporate them into the
body document by the use of INCLUDETEXT fields.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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I create a number of documents (mostly legal pleadings) that have
standardized settings. For example, a pleading will contain:

the caption -- which contains merge fields, but is the same in each
document
the body -- contains merge fields, and is different in each document
the signature block -- does not contain merge fields and is the same in
each
document.

Ideally, I would like the caption to be a separate document, which was
inserted into each pleading and then merged. The reason for this is that
if
I change the format of the general caption, I now have to open each and
every document that contains a caption and make the change one by one.
I'd
like to have a master "merge caption" that I could modify only once, and
which would show up in all pleadings.

The same is true with the signature block. Any time I change my address
or
telephone number (which doesn't happen often, but does happen), I have to
change it in each and every merge form. I'd like instead to have only one
signature block file, which was automatically inserted at the end of each
merged document.

Thank you for any advice you can provide.