Try it with just steps 1-4. It's possible Word 2013 has reverted to the old behaviour.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Paul,

I know you are tired of answering these mailmerge with different hyperlinks questions, but I've tried everything I could find in the forums with no luck.

I tried inserting a hyperlink, showing the code, and inserting the mergefield name (send_link). The result looks like this:

{ HYPERLINK Send_Link }

After the merge, the originally posted hyperlink comes up for all of the letters.

Can you help?

Thank you very much,

Shea