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Mail merge: Run-time error '13' Type Mismatch #36

Closed mcgradem99 closed 4 months ago

mcgradem99 commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug When running mail merge (Manually replace merge all merge fields on all slides'), merge begins but then error box appears with message "Run-time error '13' Type Mismatch"

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to Advanced
  2. Click on Insert Empty Merge Field (or Insert Merge Fields from Excel)
  3. Manually replace all merge fields on all slides
  4. See error

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Desktop (please complete the following information): Edition Windows 10 Enterprise Version 21H2 Installed on ‎22/‎03/‎2022 OS build 19044.2965 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19041.1000.0

PowerPoint Version 2202 (Build 14931.21000 Click-to-Run)

iappyx commented 1 year ago

Can you provide an anonymized example of the excel that you use?

mcgradem99 commented 1 year ago

I stand corrected - it actually works fine if you use an Excel. It's the 'Manually replace merge all merge fields on all slides' option which produces the error (see images for example). Thank you :)

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iappyx commented 4 months ago

Fixed in the latest beta.