Inserting a GIF from a file into a mail merge document

[nick]

I am using the technique in Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article - 229310 to automate a mail merge process. Is
there a way of inserting a picture into the merged
document? Or better still is there an article that gives
all the commands to control fonts and their sizes,
paragraph alignments etc... all in one neat glossary?
Thanks

 

[macropod]

Hi Nick,

to insert a picture in a mailmerge, you could use an INCLUDEPICTURE field,
with the picture's name being sourced from a mailmerge field that you embed
in the INCLUDEPICTURE field. Depending on what you're doing, the path could
be hardcoded in the INCLUDEPICTURE field, or you could add that too as part
of the mailmerge.

There have been numerous posts in this forum about the technique.
Check out http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm too.
A google search should turn up some more useful links.

Cheers