No, I am not saying you cannot hide field codes. I am saying that hiding the field codes and performing the merge are not the same thing.



Besides... if your macro creates the doc and then does the merge, the field codes don't have time to display!

Am I missing something? Why would field codes display?

I think I am posting before I am seeing your responses. I tried the code that you suggested above and now it is stopping me on the following line.
.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument

and says "requested object is not available".

Yes, I am trying to have the template open up a new doc with the merged data displayed on the document. Instead, it is opening up a new doc and telling me the requested data is not available and therefore displays the document with field codes before it is merged.
The data source is correct and as I mentioned above, the process works correctly if I manually open the template. Any ideas?

Thank you.
Brandi