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Hi Baldeagle,
If the hyperlink links are: • in one of the mailmerge main documents, simply convert them to hyperlinks there before executing the mailmerge. • added via the mailmerge, you need to embed them in a hyperlink filed. However, by default, if you insert a mailmerge field into a hyperlink field, the hyperlinks will all show the first record’s address as the 'Text to display' text. Here's how you can do get a mailmerge to display your preferred default 'Text to display' text instead: 1. Disregarding mergefield issues for the moment, insert a hyperlink into the document in the normal way, choosing whatever 'Click Here' text you want in the 'Text to display' box. 2. Select the inserted hyperlink and press Shift-F9 to expose its field code. 3. Replace everything in the field after 'HYPERLINK' with your mergefield. 4. Select the field and press F9 to update the display. In Word 2007 & later, you can make the display text variable also, by following these additional steps: 5. Position the cursor anywhere within the display text. 6. Insert a mergefield pointing to whatever data field you want to use for the display text (this could even be the same field as used at step 3 above). 7. Delete all of the previous display text either side of your last-inserted mergefield (note that this field will likely have updated already). 8. Execute the merge. 9. After merging to a new document, use Ctrl-A, F9 to update all fields. Without this, the mergefield hover text won’t update to the correct targets. As for the truncated addresses, that suggests a problem with your data layout. Without seeing an example, it's hard to diagnose.
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