Carl -

I guess we are both struggling with the same issue - isn't it frustrating?!!

Ray et al -

The "good" news is that this can work.  The "bad" news is that it seems to work only if and when it wants to and is, therefore, extremely frustrating.

A basic error I had made - before talking to Carl - is that I was typing the French curly braces.  OK, I won't do that any more.  I now know to use Control/F9 to create them and, for the "photo," to use the "Insert Merge Field" and select photo (the LE containing the path to my picutes).

I tried playing with the steps you outlined Ray and got nowhere.  Only when I use the steps you mentioned do I get *MERGEFORMAT at the end of the code.  Carl seems to only want to know what the INET is that he gets (and I don't).  I would like to know what the *MERGEFORMAT is for.

When I enter the code  using Control/F9 and manually type everything it works some of the time and not others.  I cannot distinguish what I am doing differently that causes it to work or fail.

Assuming I (or we) we can figure this out, that would leave me with two concerns.

1)  I need to have the ability to save the "master" document and be able to re-use it for subsequent merges.  As Carl said - and even with me using Word 2003 - the code is changed as soon as "save" is clicked.

2) Although I created a table and use a "cell" for the picture insert code, the size of the picture varies from label to label.  Is there any way that a picture "size" can be included in the command?

Both Carl and I are well aware that this is obviously a "Word" issue and not a Sesame issue per se.  On the other hand, in order for the graphic capability of Sesame to be "useful" in common applications, the ability to do this type of merge is crucial.

So, thanks for all your ongoing help ... and I do hope we can get this "flat."  

Once again, having done it once (and intermittently after that) I am very encouraged.  The first time I saw the appropriate pictures on each of over 200 labels I was at first flabberghasted and, in the end ecstatic!

Carl,

Which way do you figure out to make it stop doing it?

I was able to make it save the merge field by changing the c:\\Sesame\\Pics\\ to c:/Sesame/Pics/

-Ray

Actually, I didn't make Spencer wait very long. I called him to let him know what I found.

The answer was so simple, I can't believe that I didn't figure it out sooner. All I needed to do was remove the "C:" from the path. It would then allow me to save the master document, without changing the field codes I had built.

Ray, your solution also works. And is probably better as well, because your solution would allow the use of a drive letter, if someone needed that.

What is confusing is, a pathname should be using backslashes, not forward slashes, right? In any case, I am glad to have found a solution.

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Ahhh, where was this answer when I needed it.
I looked for such an option, but could not find it. That option is buried pretty deep. Besides, I didn't expect it to be under Web Options.

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Well, in my case, I actually want to create a new document for this data, so it can be sent to the printing company as a package ready to print. (And yes, I removed the \d option from my field code, so that the images will be included with the document file.)

Thanks for the help Ray and Erika.