Hi Paul,
Thanks so much for your reply and for the info..

Your idea regarding merging the documents is a very sensible one!! It would work for most fields however, I think it would fail for fields that didn't accept plain text (ie: date fields or fields formatted for numbers). It would probably be more time consuming as there are hundreds of documents I would need to merge and save.

Also, I note your point regarding mailmerges - however I need the files for a particular application which uses templates... we therefore are moving from mailmerges using documents with fields to templates that use simple codes within square brackets. Therefore, my need to convert the field codes to text and the documents to templates.

In any event, I think I am there now but thank you again for your assistance.