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I still have one problem understanding this. If I put global templates into the Startup folder (office 10start) or into the Startup folder under Documents & Settings, High security will cause a warning to appear for an unsigned macro. However, if I put the global templates into another folder, which I have specified as the Startup folder under Tools|Options|File Locations, High security does NOT display a warning. It seems that macro security is folder specific. I’m afraid I don’t follow that.

I should have mentioned that I am aware of the “Trust all installed add-ins and templates.” Yes, we do have DLLs (Legal Dictionary, etc.) and other add-ins that need to load.

I’m not sure I’m clear on how that check box (Trust all installed add-ins) interfaces with the macro security level. Can you give me some help with that?

One other question, please…

What is the SubType property of the OpenDataSource method? I see it in the Object Brower, but I can’t find any reference to it in the Help file.

Oh… and the data source is an RTF format file which we have converted from ASCII output from Lotus Notes. Perhaps there’s a better type of data to convert to?

Thank you. We are setting the data source, and we do not save the “header” info with the data source in the form document. I believe our code is somewhat more complex than this, and perhaps simplifying it will help matters.

Thanks again.

I guess I wasn’t clear. I put VBA in the subject, but didn’t indicate in the post itself that the merge in question is done via code. I’m using code similar to what I’ve used in Word 2000, and it does the job…. except for that pesky “confirm data source” dialog and the fact that the wizard opens in the task pain, making the process look messy. Sometimes the output document fills only about two-thirds of the dialog window, as if leaving room for the task pain which isn’t there. There’s nothing to grab to drag the right edge of the document to the right edge of the window. Can you suggest anything new, knowing that I’m doing this with a VBA macro? Thanks.

Thanks. This may do it for me…. I can select the paragraph by its index, which I will know.

Yes, I feared that would be my next problem. Text can be hidden, but I want to exclude text from my selection.

Thanks for your reply. I’m doing this with VBA, and I want to select the image, but NOT the text. In other words, I’m looking for the object hierarchy to get to the pictures in a header/footer.

Hmmmm…. the other offices say they are not having the problem. I’ll have to have a look for myself.

Thanks for the info.

It does this in MY code…. if I step through the code, I can see the warning message appear as soon as the fields are updated. I’ve removed all other global templates, and the problem still occurs.

I’m holding the Windows key while I press E. I do see what you’re driving it…. I don’t have QuickFinder on my Start menu, and there’s nothing there that begins with E that could be starting as the result of pressing the Windows key, releasing, and then pressing E. As I mentioned, this is really hit or miss, and it happens on three PCs which I have. I can’t find anything that’s consistent with one result or the other. I thought perhaps it might have something to do with what other programs or open or that sort of thing. Each PC has several users set up on it, and the inconsistency is present regardless of which user I’m logged in as. (I use a separate login for each of my clients.)

That would certainly do the trick, but we have 400 users who wouldn’t be able to manage that. We also need to maintain the document name and version with the DMS.

No, I’ve even made a point of setting ScreenUpdating to True just to be sure.

This is being managed by an attorney who is very irritated that the firm decided to give up WordPerfect. There’s plenty of apprehension, as you might imagine.

I’ve decided to break it into separate chunks. After complete the first part, a dialog will display announcing: “Part one has been completed. You may review and begin part two at any time.”

This is not what they wanted, but their previous Will was so complicated that only two or three people knew how to do it. Anyone will be able to do this, and perhaps the “breaks” will provide opportunity to pause and ask questions, etc. I think I can sell it on that point, or that an attorney can begin the process and finish a day or a week later. I think that makes more sense anyway.

I’ll keep a copy of the code with the “lingering” dialogs and show them what happened. Sometimes they can be reasonable.