I am currently in the process of converting documents from Word Perfect to Word. The biggest advantage that Word Perfect has over Word is the 'merge fields' which is similar to mail merge in word.



I have no problem using mail merge and can use about 90% of it to complete my documents, however there are a few fields that get the information entered manually within the document itself.

My problem there is the end user will need to be able to go from field to field completing one after another as my documents may contain 40 pages and those fields are separated by tons of text and multiple pages.

Additionally, I'm not sure how making it into a form would work because the other fields will be mail merge fields.

Using office 2010. Thanks for any help.

I tried it on a mail merge document of my own and used the FILL-IN field, which runs when opened if a template and will run again when you run your mail merge. Use prompts for the answers you require. If you have a lot of mail merge recipients this method I think will become confusing. I tried using Content Control in the Developer Tab, but once I ran the merge, it would only allow the same result as the first record and I could not restrict the editing either (probably not enough knowledge on my part me thinks - I shall be improving my knowledge in this area).

Have a look at Graham Mayor's website www.gmayor.com, you might find what you are looking for there.

Might be an idea to upload an example of your mailmerge document and the fields for the mail merge and the prompt required for the other fields that need to be entered manually.

Previous I used the Dropdown Box option which only allowed the one answer, the Combo box gave me the option to choose a different answer to the first record.

I had previously only used 2 records and 2 options in the Combo Dialog control, so ran the mailmerge again using 4 records and 3 options, of which I could still use the different options in the Combo drop down list. You can also set in the properties that the entry cannot be deleted and cannot be edited and if required a style for the entry.