I have been pulling my hair out trying to get a dynamic image to work in my merge. I've looked at numerous online 'answers' but have not had any actually work. This is my current code based on macropod's super helpful posts.

But I'm still getting "Error! Unknown op code for conditional." when I run my merge.
It has been tricky to test, as my merge is run by an application I use at work which generates the merge data on the fly, then sends the result to a printer (or pdf).

My image source is a network address. I don't have access to the local drives the software that is running the merge is on. I have tested that it has access to the network location using a direct link (ie no mergefield in the filename).

All my {} are created with Ctrl+F9.



Any help would be amazing, otherwise I'll be back to using 44 different merge templates, one for each area

Your field code is incorrect. The old method no longer works.

See the Managing Mailmerge Graphics topic on the Mailmerge Tips & Tricks page: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html

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Thanks for the reply, but I'm still unclear what I code should be using. You mention that the 'old' method no longer works, does that apply to Word pre-2007?

I have read the post you link to and concluded that I should try
The outcome was just blank; no image included, but also no error.

I also noticed in the post that you mention adding a macro, however I am unable to do this due to application restrictions. I'm not clear wether the macro is neccesary for the images to work.

I'm starting to think it is a quirk of the application running the merge.

I'm not sure whether the old approach will work with W0rd 97-2003. If so, you'd use a field code like:
{INCLUDEPICTURE "\\\\server\\images\\{ MERGEFIELD Area_Code}.emf" \d}
or:
{IF{IF TRUE "\\\\server\\images\\{ MERGEFIELD Area_Code}.emf" {INCLUDEPICTURE "\\\\server\\images\\{ MERGEFIELD Area_Code }.emf" \d}}
However, you may need to include the full path to the images folder, not just the server name.

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Thanks, but I'm still not getting anything when I run the merge.

I'm suspecting it's due to the fact that the merge runs via a third party application and prints directly to the printer.

I thought I'd try the very inelegant method of embedding the images in a whole lot of nested IF statements to avoid any issues it might have been having accessing the files. But even that didn't work. It would be blank when I ran the merge direct to a printer. It would however display the image if I run the merge and view it as a Word doc, but unfortunately I need to have it work straight to the printer.

I understand a macro might help with updating the images, but the application I'm using doesn't allow macros

I might have to just give up, unless you have any ideas why just inserting images inline into nested IF statements wouldn't be printing?

Thanks

Given that you're merging direct to printer, you might be able to get the desired results with just:
{INCLUDEPICTURE "\\\\server\\images\\{ MERGEFIELD Area_Code }.emf"}

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Paul Edstein
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