WORD: Merge code changing during merging process

[Shiremaid]

We have a template that we use for merging and have come upon a weird glitch.

We have a merge code for the Contact's Name and a merge code for their Company.

We can see in the template that in one paragraph we do have the correct merge code for the name, but when we connect to the excel spreadsheet to actually merge the information in, we can see the merge code change to the one for the Company.

Does anyone know how on earth merging (with the wizard, exactly as we always do) would replace one merge code with another?

 

[Macropod]

That suggests either that the mailmerge main document has been set up incorrectly, or that field names in the data source have been changed. Alternatively, the mailmerge main document might have an IF field that's being used to choose between the Contact's Name and their Company according to some (unspecified) condtion. The merge process won't swap fields around. If you open the mailmerge main document and toggle the field code display 'on' (e.g. via Alt-F9), you should be able to see what field constructions are in use.