Hi all,

I love/live in excel but im rather new to advanced word and mail merge.

i need to insert a picture as a header into a merged document, i have followed this tutorial, http://wordnut.hubpages.com/hub/IncludePicture, and i can get it to work but visually its not right.

after inserting the link to file my image is automatically scaled down to fit the "page" even though i have set the header to have no margins(by moving the arrows on the ruler) and i have cropped the image to be 8.5 inchs wide(outside of word). there is no need for it to be scaled down.

as the tutorial says, you can not resize an inserted picture, the link becomes dead.

Is there a way for me to insert a merged picture to the full 8.5 inches wide without re-sizing after i insert picture??

can i insert a whole a4 .pdf as a background fill?

a work around that i am using now is to make the image(which is mostly white space) much smaller and insert the image on the right side of the document but that is not going to work for letter heads that use the whole horizontal page.