simmerdown
Programmer
I'm setting up a staff directory as a Mail Merge, and everything's all fine and dandy until we come to my {INCLUDEPICTURE} that is an absolute path to a folder on a network drive.
The path to the image needs to be:
[COLOR=008800]{INCLUDEPICTURE "I:\\Inet\\Public\\CSSrvcs\\Roster\\Pictures\\{MERGEFIELD PersonID}.jpg"}[/color]
but everytime I try to save the template document, Word ever-so-helpfully resolves the path to be:
[COLOR=880000]{INCLUDEPICTURE "../../../../SHRDIRS/INet/Public/CSSrvcs/Roster/Pictures/729.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET}[/color]
(the "729" part depends on whatever datasource record happened to be showing at the moment.)
AAUUUGGHHHH!! I won't be doing the actual merge myself, so I have to set the document up correctly for someone else to use it in the future. If Word resolves the path when I save it, then the Merge document won't work properly for the person who will be performing the actual merge.
Is there any way I can get Word to leave my code alone?
(I've never growled at my computer so much before.)
The path to the image needs to be:
[COLOR=008800]{INCLUDEPICTURE "I:\\Inet\\Public\\CSSrvcs\\Roster\\Pictures\\{MERGEFIELD PersonID}.jpg"}[/color]
but everytime I try to save the template document, Word ever-so-helpfully resolves the path to be:
[COLOR=880000]{INCLUDEPICTURE "../../../../SHRDIRS/INet/Public/CSSrvcs/Roster/Pictures/729.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET}[/color]
(the "729" part depends on whatever datasource record happened to be showing at the moment.)
AAUUUGGHHHH!! I won't be doing the actual merge myself, so I have to set the document up correctly for someone else to use it in the future. If Word resolves the path when I save it, then the Merge document won't work properly for the person who will be performing the actual merge.
Is there any way I can get Word to leave my code alone?
(I've never growled at my computer so much before.)