In you mail merge main document, you need to place quotes around the
mergefield inside the IncludePicture field

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "{ MERGEFIELD [FieldName] }" }

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
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I have a mail merge set up between an Access database and several Word
documents. In my Access database I have a field that contains the path to
a
bmp, e.g C:\\data\\thePicture.bmp

When the merge runs, the result looks like this:

{INCLUDEPICTURE C:\\data\\thePicture.bmp \* MERGEFORMAT}

If I preview the document, the picture is not there.

I have to select the INCLUDEPICTURE statement, right click, select Edit
Field, click OK, and Word adds quotes around the picture name:

{INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\data\\thePicture.bmp" \* MERGEFORMAT}

Then if I preview the document, I see the picture.

I've tried adding the quotes into the Access field, but that doesn't solve
the problem.

How should that path be stored in the Access field?