They aren't related, but that's not the issue. What your cross-posting has resulted in is three different people trying to help you on three different forums without the benefit of knowing what help you'd received elsewhere, resulting in a duplication of effort on two of them. The cross-posting rule/etiquette is about avoiding such duplication of effort and having people working with information about the issue on one forum that isn't available on the others (e.g. your mailmerge context).

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