Word For Mac Cannot Open Document As It Is A Mail Merge Document

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Looks like this feature is not supported but still you want their is one workaround for this but not supported.doing unsupported things generally equals 'trouble', if not immediately, then later, so even if you can actually get this to work. Read the reply from Peter Jamieson on Mail Merge from SharePoint 2013. The mail-merge feature in Word is a fast, easy way to create form letters addressed to many different. Cannot Convert a Document File to a Readable Document. Open a Word document file, and you can start to make edits and changes to your heart's content. I am new to VBE, and also am running on a MacBook Pro.

I have a user running Microsoft Office Pro 2010. She has created a Word document from an Avery label template and entered 7 pages of addresses.

She then decided to change the font used on the labels to 'GATLINGGUN' which worked without issue. Now she's decided she doesn't like the font and wants to change it again.

However, when she chooses a different font, all of the characters change to blank boxes (like the font isn't displaying correctly). This only happens on this document. If she opens a different document or creates a new one she can change fonts without issue. I tried saving the document as Word 97-2003 but it does the same thing. I also opened the document on my PC using Word 2007 with same results. Trying 'Open and Repair' also did not work. The issue is with the GATLINGGUN font.

If I create a new document and use that font, it has the same problem. I tried deleting the font but then when you open the document everything appears as symbols (like Wingdings). Trying to change the font to something else also results in blank boxes.

Samsung 860 evo for mac. Any ideas how to recover from this without having to re-enter all of the addresses again? KevinWegner wrote: It has happened once before to someone at our place, and if I remember correctly, I came to the conclusion that the file was corrupted.

Word for mac cannot open document as it is a mail merge documents

You said that it doesn't happen if you try to re-create the issue in a new document, so that isolates the issue to that particular file. If you re-read the original post you'll see that the issue did occur in a new document as well. The issue was the GATLINGGUN font itself. The user deleted the font from their system then recreated the document. Bill2718 wrote: This sounds like a corrupted document to me, sounds like there's a problem with the language or character mapping, possibly caused by the goofy font If it's a.DOCX file, there's one thing you can try. DOCX files are really just zip archives with lots of XML content. Use a zip utility to extract the file contents and poke around in the folders, there should be a file in there called document.xml.

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That may have the original content. Thanks for the suggestion. I just did this and it appears the text should be between which only shows the square boxes: . Scan your computer for this: ~$*.* The results are corrupted Office docs. They are sometimes created because Word, Outlook, etc. closed unexpectedly, various add-ins not always playing well with Outlook (eg ACT), Office and or external app MailMerges. In any event, delete all that are found regardless of extension (doc, docx, xls, etc).