Sunday, April 20, 2008

Word Mail Merge Glitch onTablets

After successfully trying to create labels in Office 2007 and only generating the top row, I discoverd that there is a known bug in the Microsoft tablet operating system as described in article 898630.

Here's the workaround:
1.When you are on step 4 of 6 in the Mail Merge wizard, tap the Tablet PC Input Panel icon on the Taskbar to open the Tablet PC Input Panel.

Note If you are running Windows Vista on a Tablet PC, select the keyboard icon at the upper left of the Tablet PC Input Panel.
2.Tap Func to display the function keys on the upper row of the keyboard.
3.Tap inside the first label of the mail merge document.
4.Tap F6. This sets the focus from the mail merge document to the Mail Merge task pane.
5.Tap the arrow key until you select Update all labels.
6.Tap the Spacebar to enable Update all labels.
All labels on the page are updated with both the Next Record field and the AddressBlock field.

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