When creating an email merge document I have previewed the emails and they
appear correctly with names inserted as expected. However when I perform a
test run on selected recipients the name field appears as <<field>> rather
than the actual name. Any help would be appreciated.

Are you doing a test print? What version Publisher are you using? What do you
see when you do a print preview? Are you merging from Outlook?

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"Arena Lounge" <Arena Lounge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When creating an email merge document I have previewed the emails and they
> appear correctly with names inserted as expected. However when I perform a
> test run on selected recipients the name field appears as <<field>> rather
> than the actual name. Any help would be appreciated.

I am running an email preview in which everything looks fine. But when i send
to a test group of subjects instead of Dear Joe it comes up Dear <<name>> in
the actual email sent.
Publisher version is 2007 (trial version).
I am using a specific list created for the merge so fields are not being
merged from Outlook.
I had been adding the field directly into a text box along with the body of
the letter.I have just attempted another variant to achieve the same result
by adding a greeting line in on its own and this appears to be working when
sending the live email.

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

> Are you doing a test print? What version Publisher are you using? What do you
> see when you do a print preview? Are you merging from Outlook?
>
> --
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
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>
> "Arena Lounge" <Arena Lounge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:59B55809-D08B-4B0C-B4DE-1CCD59DBF5F1@microsoft.com...
> > When creating an email merge document I have previewed the emails and they
> > appear correctly with names inserted as expected. However when I perform a
> > test run on selected recipients the name field appears as <<field>> rather
> > than the actual name. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>

There is a 256 character limit in a merge field. Were you treating the letter as
a field? Looks as though you have everything under control. Thanks for posting.


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http://msauer.mvps.org/
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"Arena Lounge" <ArenaLounge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EBED43F4-9433-4D22-A11A-1026A7A64633@microsoft.com...
>I am running an email preview in which everything looks fine. But when i send
> to a test group of subjects instead of Dear Joe it comes up Dear <<name>> in
> the actual email sent.
> Publisher version is 2007 (trial version).
> I am using a specific list created for the merge so fields are not being
> merged from Outlook.
> I had been adding the field directly into a text box along with the body of
> the letter.I have just attempted another variant to achieve the same result
> by adding a greeting line in on its own and this appears to be working when
> sending the live email.
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> Are you doing a test print? What version Publisher are you using? What do you
>> see when you do a print preview? Are you merging from Outlook?
>>
>> --
>> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://msauer.mvps.org/
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>>
>> "Arena Lounge" <Arena Lounge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:59B55809-D08B-4B0C-B4DE-1CCD59DBF5F1@microsoft.com...
>> > When creating an email merge document I have previewed the emails and they
>> > appear correctly with names inserted as expected. However when I perform a
>> > test run on selected recipients the name field appears as <<field>> rather
>> > than the actual name. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>