Word 2003 INCLUDEPICTURE with Merge field inconsistant

[IanG]

I am using Word 2003 to Merge records from Excel 2003. I have an exce
column containing a Signature ID. In the merge document (Doc 1) I hav
the following field:-
{INCLUDEPICTURE "C:\\Temp\\Sig_{ MERGERFILED SIG_ID }.bmp" \
MERGERFORMAT }
Then the Doc 1 is merged to a new doc (Doc 2), all the output selecte
and the fields updated with F9. This works correctly in Word 97 an
2000 but not in Word 2003.
In Word 2003 you get whatever was currently visible in Doc 1 displaye
throughout the Doc 2. If after opening Doc 1, I do not update th
field (leaving the image placeholder blank), Doc 2 has blank field
throughout all records. If I step to record 3 in Doc 1, and update th
Signature field so that the correct signature for the record i
displayed, then the merged Doc 2 has record 3's signature throughout.
Just to confirm, if an identical document is created in Word 97 o
2000, the fields work perfectly.
Any Suggestions

 

[IanG]

Further details

The actual path used was to a network drive, in further testing I found
Word 2003 actually replaces the merge field in the path on saving if the
path is local. Additionally the problem only occurs when the
INCLUDEPICTURE is nested within an IF field. As a result I would now
say the problem is that after the merge document has been produced, in
2003 the IF resolves to an imbeded image, rather than as previous
version, resolving to in INCLUDEPICTURE field with the derived merged
path.