Removing all Mailmerge fields

[Perry48]

I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Make a backup copy of your document before trying this.

Select the entire body of the document (e.g. ctrl-A), and "unlink" the
fields using ctrl-shift-F9. Most field codes will be replaced by their
results. If you need to do headers and footers as well, you need a bit of
VBA to loop around everything.

 

[Perry48]

That is so simple - I wonder why I couldn't find it in the commands or
anywhere in help. I can just use Find & Replace then to also remove the <<
& >> characters.

ThankYouVeryMuch Peter,
Perry