If you display the field codes - ALT+F9 - so instead of viewing
OLD-FIELD you see { MERGEFIELD OLD-FIELD } you can run Search and
Replace on the content ie you coulkd search for OLD-FIELD replace with "NEW
FIELD" (the quotes are essential if you have spaces in the field names -
better to avoid the spaces! I take it that you detached the old data source
(Set the document type to normal Word document from the mail merge toolbar)
before trying to add fields that didn't exist in the current data source?

On reflection if you attach a data source to one with different field names,
the attachment process should prompt for you to remap the fields from the
new data source. It shouldn't be necessary to manually modify the merge
document ?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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"Gnibtay" wrote in message
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Please Help if you can. I have lost about 10 hours editing a Mail Merge
Master document, only to find none of the changes are saved when you
reopen.
Here's what happened: My document is a Master Form of legal document. I
merge the fields from a single client record into it, which inserts all
the
client-specific data into the document. My Fields have changed, so I
wanted
to edit the fields in my Master. I want to search for the {OLD-FIELD} and
replace it with the {NEW FIELD}. Word does not seem to allow me to do
this.
First, it will not let me cut and paste the fields into the Search &
Replace
Box. Secondlly, after hours of laboriously replacing my Fields one at a
time, and dutifully saving, NONE of the changes were saved. The changes
are
all shown in the document while I'm editing it. Then I save & close the
edited document. When I re-open it it reverts to the original. None of
the
changes have been saved! I have tested this a number of times. It is not
my
error or my imagination. For some reason the Mail Merge document does not
save changes to the Fields. FYI, The document is NOT protected either.
Any
thoughts? I am at my wits' end. Thank you.