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Although I've never tried anything like this, in principle it should work. Before we go any further--and I know how difficult it is to transcribe field constructions because you can't just copy/paste--is
Mail merges in recent versions of Word do not respect Excel formatting. To format dates, currency, or numbers generally the way you want them, you need to add a switch to the merge field (see http://www
I haven't used Word 2007 extensively, but my understanding is that Word 2003 .dot templates will, for the most part work just fine in Word 2007, with the exception that some macros may not run exactly
The easy option (assuming you saved the document and it is still somewhere on the HD) is to do a file search using the option of searching for text within the file. This is done differently depending on
As explained in my article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm, each section can have up to three headers and footers. If you enable "Different first page," you can have a separate First

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