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Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:57 am**

I have a docx file created using word and filled with mail merge fields (by non-tech users). How do I convert that to use "content controls" so I can dull the pain of mail merge telling me "MailMerger(659) - TODO MERGEFIELD field contained complex instruction". I assume that's MS-Word splitting the merge fields across runs???

when I crack open the xml I see:

Code: Select all: <w:r> <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> MERGEFIELD Guarantor_1_short_name \* </w:instrText> </w:r> <w:r w:rsidRPr="001313F4"> <w:instrText>MERGEFORMAT</w:instrText> </w:r> <w:r> <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> </w:instrText> </w:r>

Code: Select all: <w:r w:rsidRPr="0004112C"> <w:rPr> <w:color w:val="000000"/> </w:rPr> <w:lastRenderedPageBreak/> // this appears to be causing issues also????? <w:instrText xml:space="preserve">MERGEFIELD "Balance_as_of_Today" </w:instrText> </w:r>

if it's not possible or just error prone to convert from a doc with mail merge fields to one using content controls, how does one go about creating a word doc (using word) that makes use of content controls. From what I read, you need to enable "developer" stuff in the ribbon. Is that something designed for a non-tech?

In the end, I just want to do the "submit both" sort of thing and let the user submit the key/value pairs and do a search and replace in the doc....but how do I get from a mail merge doc to one of these "content control" type documents?

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:29 am**

1. If you can make a simple test case exhibiting MERGEFIELD issues (one issue per test case), we're interested in fixing them.

2. you can try auto converting from MERGEFIELDs to content controls, with org.docx4j.model.datastorage.migration.FromMergeFields

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/**

         * @param args

         * @throws Exception 

         */
publicstaticvoid main(String[] args)throwsException{

String inputfilepath =System.getProperty("user.dir")
+"/TEST1.docx";

String outputfilepath =System.getProperty("user.dir")
+"/OUT_TEST1.docx";

                WordprocessingMLPackage pkgIn= WordprocessingMLPackage.load(new java.io.File(inputfilepath));

                FromMergeFields migrator =new FromMergeFields();

                WordprocessingMLPackage pkgOut= migrator.migrate(pkgIn);

                SaveToZipFile saver =new SaveToZipFile(pkgOut);

                saver.save(outputfilepath);

}
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3. for authoring documents using content control binding, try http://www.opendope.org/downloads/autho ... /setup.exe or http://www.opendope.org/downloads/OpenD ... ySetup.msi

Alternatively, you can try the older http://www.opendope.org/downloads/autho ... /setup.exe or http://www.opendope.org/downloads/OpenD ... nSetup.msi

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