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Old 10-01-2013, 12:26 PM
Cosmo Cosmo is offline Windows Vista Office 2007
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Edit: after some contemplation, I think the way to go might be to use the method in that article, but instead of creating a new form field, locate the form field in the original document, then copy it's range to the merged document.
After some more contemplation (and a few tests with varied success), I think I have come up with the proper game plan:

Before merge starts:
Store original document's 'Saved' state
Duplicate entire original document to a temp 'reference' document (hidden).
Delete Cover page from original document
Convert the textFields to placeholders in original document

After merge completes:
Add cover page from reference document (bookmark) to merged document
Restore text fields in merged document from reference document
Reset contents of original document to contents of reference document
Reset original document's 'Saved' state
Close/delete reference document
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