>That is the same problem and I thought of the same solution, but I don't know how to check what mail merge fields are in my WORD doc (using automation). Do you know how?
The code from Cetin does exactly that unless I misunderstand something. laFields is the list of fields in your source table and lcMergeField is taken from MailMerge fields collection.
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