Empty letter after finalizing a form letter
Empty letter after finalizing a form letter
Summary
You may see an empty letter after you've finalized your form letter. If you try manually to finish the mail merge by pressing Finish & Merge ==> Edit individual Documents...
you may get this error message:
Word found locked fields during the update. Word cannot update locked fields.
Information
There might be locked Microsoft Word fields (DocProperties, Mergefields, etc.) in your form template.
Solution
Open the series letter and unlock all fields by pressing CRTL+A to select the whole document and afterwards CRTL + SHIFT + F11 to unlock the fields.
Hint
To lock a field press: CRTL + F11
Applies To
- Microsoft Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2007
- Microsoft Word 2010
Microsoft Visual Basic Macro to find the locked field
Sub FindLock() ' ' FindLock Macro ' Dim iField As Integer Dim vResponse As Variant For iField = 1 To ActiveDocument.Fields.Count If ActiveDocument.Fields(iField).Locked Then ActiveDocument.Fields(iField).Select vResponse = MsgBox("Continue Searching?", vbYesNo) If vResponse = vbNo Then Exit For End If Next iField End Sub