Word Mail Merge Fields

Question

I have not worked with Merge fields before, and all I find requires you to select a data source before you can insert merge fields. All I want to do is put the fields in the word document and not combine it until it is used by the code. I essentially create document templates. How is this done in a word?

Answer 1

I would use this Microsoft article . If you do not have a data source, I would simply create a dummy source Excel / Access / data with the fields that you will have. Word prefers to know which fields are available, and you can change the source as soon as your template document is created.

Answer 2

As Noah said, it might be easiest to create a dummy data source that contains available fields, especially if you haven’t worked with Mail Merge before.

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